For our family, learning was everything. Homework came first; books, being sacred, were never to be left on the floor.

Language is one of the only things that we truly share, and I sometimes used this joint inheritance to obfuscate and deflect and justify myself: to re-brand what was good for me as something appearing good for us both, when I threw around terms like 'the sharing economy' and 'disruption' and 'global resourcing.'

I will not concede for a moment that old privileges should not dwindle. They cannot dwindle fast enough.

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