graham over at graham prouty on-line and on-life tagged me for this meme.

here’s how it goes…

pick up the nearest book of 123 pages or more (no cheating!)

find page 123

find the first five sentences

post the next three sentences

tag five people – i’m opting out of that part. following the trendsetting lead of ruth.

the title of the book nearest me: before women had wings

author: connie may fowler

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“and i thought, again?

pheobe and i shot each other worried glances – mama had been drinking an awful lot since we moved to tampa, and even though she explained that, for her, booze was medicine, i had my doubts. we two girls closed our books and trudged down the hall.”

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i haven’t finished this book, yet. but will soon, maybe today. it’s one that i would loan to winey if i could still walk across the street and give it to her.