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The year I unlearned being busy
For thirty-four years my value was my speed. This is what happened when I stopped typing for other people.
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A typewriter teaches patience, then cruelty
There is no backspace. Every sentence I keep, I have earned twice.
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What my mother never wrote down
Her recipes, her temper, the year in Glasgow she would not talk about.
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For thirty-four years I took down other people’s words as a court stenographer.
At sixty I sold the house, bought a typewriter and started on my own. Now there is a letter every Sunday, a book, and a circle for anyone who wants to begin too.
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