And let me just say this about its author: Diana Joseph was one of the best parts of my whole grad school experience.
She will invite you over for beans and rice or creamy cauliflower casserole or chicken noodle soup. She will invite you over and tell you the one thing she believes in is this: everything is made better with a can of Ro-Tel tomatoes. She will invite you to Wal-Mart so you can help shop for things to stuff inside a pinata for Cinco de Mayo. She will invite you to TJ Maxx so you can shop for things to give out if someone gets a baby you've baked into the cupcakes for her party. She will invite you over to walk next door and say hi to her neighbor, the one wearing the bathrobe and making a turkey sandwich, the one she thinks you should have a fling with.
She will let you cry and curse and yell about the people you hate, the boys you've loved, the friends who have done you wrong. She will let you fuss yourself out on her couch, at her kitchen table, over a glass of scotch. She will say things like You're okay, baby. You're okay. in a voice that somehow makes you believe that, hey, you are okay and everything will be fine. She will swing her hair around and around and around and tell you you should swing your hair around too.
A girl like that has an awful lot to say, and don't you want to listen to her say it?
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She will say things like You're okay, baby. You're okay. in a voice that somehow makes you believe that, hey, you are okay and everything will be fine.
Yes! The book!
And, yes! What you said!
But I think, associated with what I've quoted above, the greatest thing about Diana is that not only do you believe you'll be fine, but that she believes you'll be fine. In other words, she's not just saying it because it will help (and friends are valuable when they do that much)--she's saying it because it's true to her. I wish I could learn how to think like that.
Maybe this would have been better posted on Diana's blog . . .
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