![]() So I thought wow, there's a kind of underground, a whole universe of people that are flying under the radar, who are not obeying the rules. It reminded me of the last book I wrote, which was about mourning customs, when people would take me aside at parties and say, "You know I'm still wearing my father's undershirts and he died five years ago." Things that were not really acceptable for 20th- or 21st-century North America. And she just looked at me and said, "No, I have no idea, he's still doing it.". ![]() Although one woman friend said to me, "You know when I started going out with X 25 years ago, he was taking three showers a day, and I would have just loved to know what he really smelled like, as opposed to Dial soap." And I said something like, well, now you've been married for 25 years, so I guess you know. They were much more likely to confide less washing than the norm rather than more washing. What sort of secrets did people tell you? When you started telling friends you were writing this book, you began getting confessions from people. ![]()
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