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just a brief taste:

lydell, who's about to turn fifty, had shown us her new tattoo. mom was marveling at it, saying she couldn't understand the notion of volunteering for pain. "how long did it take you to get it?" she asked, and we all expected lydell to say, you know, half an hour, an hour.

but betty rolled her eyes and said, "obviously about fifty years."