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To be a certain kind of girl (or boy, though their heroes always seem a little easier to come by) is to dream at some point of growing up to be Joan Didion. In the diamond-cut clarity of her prose, both fiction and journalism found a new touchstone; in her cool-eyed persona that famed mystique, wreathed in cigarette smoke and ennui lay the promise of a life less ordinary, one where glamour and gravitas could somehow coexist.
In what implausible world, after all, would any mere writer a woman, no less! And by then an octogenarian be deemed aspirational enough to sell sunglasses that cost more than a smartphone, as Didion did in a 2015 ad campaign for the Parisian fashion house Céline? Or retain the sort of relevance, more than 50 years into her career, that the advent of a new collection becomes a bona fide literary event? Accordingly,
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There he was, every day, standing outside his special learning class, watching as high school teenagers streamed the hall into our fourth period classes.
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