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8 years ago @ The Toast - An Open Thread, and Se... · 1 reply · +9 points

OH LOVE. I'm so happy for you, and proud of you!!!

9 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 0 replies · +2 points

*shudders* thankfully, no!

9 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 0 replies · +6 points

There's buttermilk in her recipe too! (Her name was Irmgard Schmidt, gotta give the women before their names.)

9 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 4 replies · +3 points

I can't weigh in on Southern cornbread, but my German great-grandmother's cornbread recipe includes both sugar and sour cream (and it is gooooood). Anyone else had cornbread like this? I'm wondering if it's German, or upper Midwest (she lived in northern WI), or what.

9 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 1 reply · +2 points

I wanted to like this comment but did not because it was at 69 and I just couldn't ruin that.

9 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 1 reply · +3 points

We can hang out!

9 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 4 replies · +25 points

For me, who checked myself in for a weekend, the hospital *was* sort of dehumanizing (no privacy, for example)...but much, MUCH less dehumanizing than being depressed & non-functional & wanting to die. It was a way of regaining agency, in fact, and I'm really glad I did it.

9 years ago @ The Toast - Gigi, Mostly · 0 replies · +12 points

Yeah, it gives me Nana feelings too. :)

My dad tells me she'd host evenings with friends where they'd all go through a musical together, reading the dramatic parts and then playing the record when songs came up. That still kinda sounds like fun.

9 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 0 replies · +5 points

Emily Mandel's first three novels are also pretty boss! And if you're feeling suffocated by family, LOLLY WILLOWES by Sylvia Townsend Warner is a wonderful witchy antidote.

9 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 1 reply · +20 points

That piece on gay adult adoption was fascinating and tragic. My mom's cousin was adopted as an adult by William S. Burroughs, and now I'm wondering whether their relationship was a marriage? I've always thought it was a bit more father-son: Jamie's his heir and literary executor, and he took care of Burroughs in his old age. But since it hadn't occurred to me until yesterday that of COURSE adopting one's spouse makes sense if you can't get familial rights any other way...I don't know! It's rude to ask, right?

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