Miriam Toews
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139 appearances
1 recordings
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 26 Jul
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But it really just is that way.
I don't know why.
It's not like we planned it.
I don't want to think it's because he's a boy and she's a girl.
But if it is, who cares?
When Georgia was upset about something at school the other day and faced down on the couch, he sat on the floor beside her and said, It's hard being a girl, isn't it?
I'm not sure that it's any easier being a boy, and I don't know what he does exactly when he's sad other than listening to music.
Except for once, it's been years since I've seen him cry.
I'd kill to read his notebook.
Is there anything about girls that you envy?
Nothing.
Nothing?
Well, what about their, it seems, their ability to kind of talk about how they feel about things easier?
You envy that?
We were all pretty quiet as we drove up to Colorado Springs, on our way to Denver.
The sun was shining, but it was raining a bit, and we saw not one, not two, but three dead cows in fields, stiff with their legs in the air.
And it bothered us.
After the third dead cow, I played my favorite song of the summer, Gillian Welch's Elvis Presley Blues.
It's a wistful song about the king as a 15-year-old boy just starting out with a big rock and roll dream in a shirt his mother made.
And it was kind of miraculous because Owen actually liked it too.
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