How I will miss the Toast.
Same, and I still miss the old Hairpin.
I looove this show. Thank you for this wonderfully written perspective.
I've plugged online transcription work on here before. It's certainly not creative or wellpaid, but it's easy, and you learn a lot, and I've been able to earn enough to pay back credit card debt that was seriously killing me every month (the late fees just kept putting me more and more and more in the hole). ETA: I found this work on Craigslist... and not even the Craigslist of my city! I found that a lot of bigger companies only advertise in the biggest cities: NYC, LA. Maybe Chicago. So if you troll around there, you might find some online work that you can do from anywhere. I've gotten editing and tutoring work that way. Also even the Craigslist for your town can have one-off gigs that turn into regular paying jobs. Good luck!
I wish I could upvote this comment a thousand names. Bless those cows' hearts.
What?! She has these as pets?!
Totally. I feel like there's also an element of resent against caring for both the grandmother and the mother. Like, usually there's a chain, the mom cares for the grandma, then when the mom is elderly the daughter cares for her in turn. But the mom does not seem like she helps out at all with the grandmother and is essentially another child. In that paradigm, it's completely the parent figure's choice to rehome a pet no matter how upset the child may be about it, but of course it would be good parenting to be at least somewhat sensitive to the child. I think without more information we don't really know how much agency the mother's situation allows her to have (would she have to give the dog up again in a few months?). Sucks for all involved.
Oh, I am so sad to hear this, especially because it means she never got to find out who killed her daughter. I was obsessed with that book as a girl and even as an adult I would periodically check her message board for updates or new theories.
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