all the thing

It wasn’t at all the thing, I’m afraid, but the minute she was fairly married, Meg cried, “The first kiss for Marmee!” and turning, gave it with her heart on her lips.

“People tend to marginalize us; they don’t show the varying shades of black women at all. The thing I love about Angel is that people want to make her sweet or downtrodden so you can root for her. Angel shakes you up. I love how people come to ‘Blues for an Alabama Sky’ and they fall in love with her all the way through.

“And these are all the thing we’ve got to work on.”

Above all, the thing she wants everyone to understand is that she didn’t set out to betray Monica Lewinsky.

“I don’t plan on living a long life,” she tells us, “or a short life, necessarily. I have no plans at all. The thing is you keep existing whether you have a plan to do so or not, until you don’t exist, and then your plans are meaningless. But not having plans doesn’t mean I don’t have regrets.”