What I really want is to sit next to someone under an L. L. bean blanket on the … - Augusten Burroughs

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Hotels are temporary people storage, no matter how big the boxes are. Remember that.

Augusten Burroughs

What I really want is to sit next to someone under an L. L. bean blanket on the beach in the fall and drink coffee from the same mug. I don't want some rusty '73 Ford Pinto with a factory-defective gas tank that causes it to explode when it's rear-ended in the parking lot of the supermarket. So why do I keep looking for Pintos?

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