As evidence that, in spite of our pending replication, we remain vibrant members of the intelligentsia, I submit the following:

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Subject: Fwd: Best American Nonrequired Reading
Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 09:52:16 -0400
From: Larry Smith
To: Andie Grace
Andie, I sent about 50 to Eggers and yours were all among the 25 he
took. So that’s two book for six words. Not bad.
Can you pass this note to Tom — I don’t seem to have his email.

10. Wasn’t born a redhead; fixed that.
- Andie Grace

12. Hugged some trees, then burned them.
- Tom Price

See below
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> I don’t know if Dave Eggers has passed along the news yet, but he and The
> Best American Nonrequired Reading committee have selected some of their
> favorite Six-Word Memoirs for the 2007 “front section” of the book

This springs from Larry Smith’s “Six Word Memoir” project. Which I highly recommend. One, because Larry and his partner Piper are outstanding people, and anything to which either is attached gets the auto thumbs up. Two, because the form of using just six words to sum up your life is a taxing and ultimately rewarding one. Try doing it on your friends, first. Case in point: let’s do Molly Golightly, shall we? Hmm, how about “Writing stylish sass? All sewn up.” If you know Molly, I hope you’ll agree. (It took about 30 seconds, but we’re on deadline here..).

Now, an exceptionally sharp person might say “hey, didn’t you meet Larry in February? Wasn’t that the trip you two became pregnant on?.” The implication being that the slow descent into pampers land was already working its way on our brains, softening them to a banana formula goo.

To which I’ll reply, ahem. Say, what’s that over there?