In 1790, a man named John Tyler was born, and George Washington was the very first president of the United States.
In time, "his accidency" John Tyler would become the 10th US president.
His youngest daughter died during the Harry Truman presidency - you know, the very end of WW2, the atomic bomb, the cold war, that Harry Truman who was presiding when both my parents were born.
Doesn't it make the country look about as old as a toddler?
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On my nightstand
Just finished - have you read?
Eat Pray Love; Bird by Bird (couldn't finish); The Twilight Saga; Persepolis 2 (Marjane Satrapi); The Angel's Game (Carlos Ruiz Zafon); The Whistling Season; Mary Barton; Hearts of horses; the worst hard time; Syngué sabour (wow); Mal de pierres; le boulevard peripherique; les chretiens; la trahison de thomas spencer; The Eleventh Man (Ivan Doig); Histoires des paysans de France (Michelet); Old School (Tobias Wolf); The Guernsey literary and potato peel pie society; Coastliners; Love walked in, and, Belong to me; The man of my dreams; Silent Spring; Options for girls: a door to the future; Three cups of tea; Wives and Daughters (sort of); Corelli's Mandolin (sort of; skimmed it only); Prep; American Wife (I'm so impressed by Curtis Sittenfeld's writing); North and South; The blessing of a skinned knee
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Do one thing every day that scares you - and another that makes you laugh.
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