Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse.
This human nature is shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection.
A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
I can still hear my mother wailing over some new kitchen crisis, "Oh God," and my father answering cozily from the silo, "Were you calling me, dear?
What people believe is a measure of what they suffer.