You Can't Beat The Beehive For Glam

Like Many Other Touchstones Of Twenty-first-century Pop Culture, 'the Sopranos' Was Hatched In The Late Nineties, Predicting A Future That Never Arrived. It Was Designed For A Decade That Would Be Just Like The Nineties, Except More So, In An America That Enjoyed Seeing Itself As Smarter And Braver And Freer Than Ever Before.

She Was The First Person On Either Side Of Her Family To Go To College, And She Held Herself To Insanely High Standards. She Worried A Lot About Whether She Was Good Enough. It Was Surprising To See How Relieved She Seemed Whenever I Told Her How Amazing She Was. I Wanted Her To Feel Strong And Free. She Was Beautiful When She Was Free.

I'd Shut The Whole World Down Just To Tell You.

The Way I Pictured It, All This Grief Would Be Like A Winter Night When You're Standing Outside. You'll Warm Up Once You Get Used To The Cold. Except After You've Been Out There For Awhile, You Feel The Warmth Draining Out Of You And You Realize The Opposite Is Happening; You're Getting Colder And Colder, As The Body Heat You Brought Outside With You Seeps Out Of Your Skin. Instead Of Getting Used To It, You Get Weaker The Longer You Endure It.

Girls Take Up A Lot Of Room. I Had A Lot Of Room For This One.