Susan Browne's Blog

• An Immense Sky

  November 12, 2009

  • A revolution is a means of achieving freedom. It is a change in the existing order of things. My first revolution began by beating Tommy Knight at tennis. The year was 1964. I was twelve, and usually only played tennis with other girls, or with my dad or my coach, Mr. Downs. In 1964, girls were girls, and boys were boys. One of many rules: boys should win. I had a crush on Tommy Knight, and I ...
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• To the Rescue

  October 8, 2009

  • My father told me he always loved to drink, ever since he tasted champagne when he was eight years old, a small glass of it that his father gave him on Christmas.  When he was eleven, my father got drunk for the first time.  He found wine bottles stored in a neighbor's garage.  His friends took a few sips, but my father drank a bottle.  He wandered around the neighborhood and came home in a ...
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• The Good Farewell

  September 24, 2009

  • I've said many farewells.  By the time I was twenty-eight, I'd said good-bye to two husbands.  Then I lived alone until I was forty-one, when I met Kenneth.  I lived with him for nine years before we married.  I didn't want to rush into anything.  A part of me didn't believe I would stay.  But the years passed, and we are still together.  It never stops astonishing me, our first hello that ...
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