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Also, this: "When I was very young, my mother read my diary. And though I loved my mother, I don’t think I ever forgave her." So, the exact thing happened to her, she felt violated and then she did it to her own daughter?
Wow. Just, wow. That is a level of emotional retardation that is really hard to beat. #joycemaynard
10/28/09
God I can't wait for these overharers to go away. #joycemaynard
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You may want to pay close attention. This is your future.
Yours,
Doodley #joycemaynard
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As the daughter of an editor and a writer, ditto. Though I did learn that stories are different based on the teller due to my extended family's entirely different version of.... everything in our entire family. #joycemaynard
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Momma has the New York Times biting. It's about you. I wrote it but it's about you. I also made you. You wouldn't have to go through this if I weren't the one that gave you life. Then again if I didn't give you life you wouldn't be alive. Let me know when you come over on Sunday, lets say ten-ish? #joycemaynard
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That braces comment, seriously, has been uttered by her. It was like deja vu to read it, hehe. #joycemaynard
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Now that I think of it, it's a very messed up, Gilmore girls type relationship, with the sad additions of bipolar disorders and bad choices to make it far, far less funny. #joycemaynard
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"Hey, I know you're angry at me because of stuff that is TOTALLY NOT MY FAULT but remember those bedtime stories I used to tell you as a kid? What were those about? I'm thinking of trying to write a children's book." #joycemaynard
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Maynard's essay is most interesting as a snapshot of the thinking that led her to violate the trust of someone she loved, and then to write about it with herself as the protagonist. #joycemaynard
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Don't get me started about politics and privilege.
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1. Ayelet Waldman is primarily a fiction writer, occasionally an essayist. She's written a lot of, shall we say, indiscreet things about her family, but she's definitely not on the Joyce Maynard level, for one thing because...
2. That Chabon money should last a while! I don't think she'll be this desperate for press. #joycemaynard
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But still. #joycemaynard
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Oh, and the original essay is just crap. I don't see how it got published in the first place. Maynard the Elder clearly still sees her daughter an extension of herself or as her possession, in spite of what the concluding lines of the essay say. If she really had "learned her lesson" as it were, none of us would be reading this. In writing the essay, she has invaded her daughter’s privacy again, even after she vowed never to do it again. That "asking permission" email is a joke and a half. #joycemaynard