“I didn’t want to, even in my imagination, even for a second, to conflate this sophisticated woman with my mother, a woman so frugal and clueless that she had once given me – to have! to know! to wear! – her stretch black lace underwear that had shrunk in the dryer, though I was only ten.”

“I didn’t want to, even in my imagination, even for a second, to conflate this sophisticated woman with my mother, a woman so frugal and clueless that she had once given me – to have! to know! to wear! – her stretch black lace underwear that had shrunk in the dryer, though I was only ten.”

— Lorrie Moore