Tell Us a Story, Grandma

Natalie Wise

The New Yorker

2015-01-26

I wonder which ones I will remember:
That I loved my boyfriend’s best friend?
That I rode the lonely train to Boston?
That I could never hold myself together?
Maybe I should just tell them
Milk was $2.89 a gallon and bread was $3.29
And an iPhone was $200
In 2010, when I was 22.


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