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"Everybody believed that they were special, that they weren't really a waiter, that they were the one who was getting out. ... I had to come to terms with the fact that I was just like everybody else, a girl with a dream and a plate of hot fajitas. You get out not so much because you're special but because you've got enough steel in your soul to crawl up."

-- Ann Patchett as quoted in The Writer's Almanac. Related: Bel Canto is one of my all-time favorite books.

Also: Martini Fridays is all about the Schuylkill.