Lucy Moderatz

I've had a really lousy Christmas, you've *just* managed to kill my New Year's, if you come back on Easter — you can burn down my apartment.

— I'm in love with your son.
— I know.
— Not that one. That one.

And l asked my dad when he knew that he truly loved my mom. And he said to me: "Lucy, your mother gave me a special gift. She gave me the world". Actually it was a globe with a light in it. But for the romantic that he was, it might as well have been the world.

We don't get to do many heroic things as an adult.

He would get these far-off looks in his eyes and he would say: "Life doesn't always turn out the way you plan". I just wish I'd realized at the time, he was talking about my life.

Well, we saw each other, and he smiled. And... And l knew that... my life would never be the same.

l have, l have, l have a cat. l have an apartment... Sole possession of the remote control. That's very important. lt's just... l never met anybody that l could laugh with, you know?