“I’m having a hard time writing about Sunday. Getting the long hollow feeling of Sundays. No mail and faraway lawn mowers, the hopelessness.”

—  Lucia Berlin

Source: A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories

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American writer 1936–2004

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