Most of my childhood revolved around wondering when we would be blown up by the Russians. I couldn't stand the news, I knew that if the missile were launched, mortality would arrive in half an hour, so I spent a lot of my childhood feeling that I was 30 minutes from being dead.
Jane SmileyWe sort of read two or three big newspapers but we don't get the flavor of the local events, the local news as much.
Jane Smiley