Dispatches from a Porch Swing

Dispatches from a Porch Swing

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“It captures that sudden drunken awareness that maybe things have gone awry, and there’s not much you can or will do about it.”

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Jen Deaderick
Jul 26, 2023
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I found out yesterday that Rosie had never heard the song Mama Told Me (Not to Come), or at least didn’t remember hearing it. I’ve had it in my head for days, and I was telling her why, but then the whole conversation made no sense to her. Or less sense.

She’s generally heard everything. At least the well known songs. She works in a vintage record store…

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