We're Just Like You, Only Prettier (2005) (edit title/settings)

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• Martha: Add a description of this character.
• Lisa Marie
• Sophie
• Carlos
• Paul
• Chuck E.
• Mama
• Ms. Wong

Quotes edit see section history

• “Yeah, it does.”

• “Say who?”

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• One day, in a hospital room somewhere, you will hold a hand that you can’t even recognize anymore. It may be thin and dry and tiny, the rings way too big even with the guards you bought for her at the jewelry store. Look closer and you’ll recognize the hand that pushed you in the swing, the one that felt your burning forehead when you were sick, the one that stroked your hair the first time you had your heart broken and cried for a solid three hours.

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• Because the truth is simple. Our time is fleeting and dear. As a good friend explained it, one day it is our mother who is buying us the Chatty Cathy that we begged for; the next, or so it seems, we find ourselves taking a baby doll as a gift to a mother in the nursing home. It has always struck me that women in nursing home beds almost always have baby dolls in their rooms. I suspect it is because they remind them of the happiest time of their lives. I know it is mine.

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• “What phrase is almost always the last thing a redneck good ol’ boy says before he dies?” Answer: “Hey, y’all! Watch this!”)

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• Simply stated: Thou shalt not be friends with thy ex. It’s, well, icky.

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• No, you eat Southern food and you just want to hug your mama and take a nap on the divan, a baseball game turned down low in the background.

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• plain old PMS, or just a slow shift toward embracing her inner witch that is causing her to become progressively more irritated by everything her husband does.

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• been known to thaw, cook, and refreeze a turkey until the poor bird finally just sits up on what’s left of its freezer-burned haunches and screams to be put out of its misery.

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• It did not escape me that it was going to take two WWF types to do what my husband had expected me to do.

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• No, we are collards. Green at times, tender at times, tough at times, and possessing great staying power.

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• Freak: “Oh, look, there’s Joel! Yoo-hoo! Jo-el! I’m so glad you could make it tonight! And who’s your friend? She’s absolutely stunning!” Normal Person: “Oh, look, there’s Joel. That lying sack of shit. Who’s the cheap Christmas trash hanging all over him? Wait a minute. I’ll just go say hello. Hi, Joel. Have you told Lil’ Kim here that you still wet the bed?”

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Baby Born
• North Carolina
• Atlanta

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Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Celia Rivenbark (Author)

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Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
• Dewey: 975

Notes for Parents edit see section history

adult humor

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Entertainment › Humor › Essays
• Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Specific Groups › Women
• Books › Nonfiction › Women's Studies