So I wasn't lying, exactly. I was just choosing among truths.

...It was nice to spend time with someone so interesting.

People are different when you can smell them and look up close, you know?

Chicago is the Great American City, and it was really great to live there during a time of economic expansion and opportunity and growth. I felt like I was living at the center of the world. Unlike New York, no one expects you to be a professional writer.

Abligurition: an actual, if very obscure, English word, which means the spending of too much money on food.

Dumpers may not always be the heartbreakers, and the Dumpees may not always be the heartbroken. But everyone has a tendency.

Why are breakfast foods breakfast foods?