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> [“In the earliest years, when you could still drive a Volvo 240 without feeling self-conscious, the collective task in Ramsey Hill was to relearn certain life skills that your own parents had fled to the suburbs specifically to unlearn, like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-franzen/in-the-earliest-years-when-you-could-still-drive-a-volvo-240-without/)

[Jonathan Franzen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-franzen/)

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> [“She was one of the few stay-at-home moms in Ramsey Hill and was famously averse to speaking well of herself or ill of anybody else. She said that she expected to be “beheaded” someday by one of the windows whose…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-franzen/she-was-one-of-the-few-stay-at-home-moms-in-ramsey-hill-and-was/)

[Jonathan Franzen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-franzen/)

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