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The Friendship Plot

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By Nicole Graev Lipson
| Lilith Magazine Verified
There are endless itemizable reasons, when one is a woman, why others might value you. Because you’re agreeable, because you smile easily, because you’re game. Because you’re pretty, have shiny hair, have a nice ass. Because you know exactly what questions to ask to make your conversation partner feel they are fascinating. Because you’d make a good wife, or good mother, or good PTO volunteer. Because you’re funny, but not bitingly funny. Because you’re smart, but not pedantically smart.
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The Cords That Bind: On the Elusiveness of Solitude in Motherhood

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By Nicole Graev Lipson
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This crescent of Cape Cod beach, down a dirt road from the cottage Paul and I are staying in for the weekend, is nearly empty. Waves slosh against the pebbled shore. The clouds, when they pass, take their time, drifting in languorous wisps. In my lap are a notebook and Thoreau’s Walden, which I’ll be teaching this fall in my eleventh grade American literature class.
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Friendships whose tightness is palpable even to others

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By Nicole Graev Lipson
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Share It was, by any traditional measure, an exciting year for the two of us: both set to be married in a matter of months, both freshly astonished to be accelerating toward the happily-ever-after portion of our lives. But this thing between us, too, was a kind of romance, with its own breathless thrill, its own private language of affection. No one before had commented on the dignity of my posture as I sat at a computer, or marveled at how completely my handwriting captured my essence.
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