Summary of Rebecca Woolf's All of This

Everest Media

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 The stoplights are out on Wilshire and all along San Vicente approaching Cedars-Sinai. I am driving with my hazards on so the cars behind me don’t honk. Hal is sitting next to me, padded with pillows so the seatbelt doesn’t press against his abdomen. I learned this trick after my C-section when our twin daughters were in the NICU after being born six weeks premature.
#2 I am driving with my hazards on because I learned this trick after my C-section when my twins were in the NICU after being born six weeks premature.
#3 Hal is going to die. He’s always dying. It was a running joke in our relationship, his preoccupation with his own mortality, and we couldn’t help but laugh about it. The more we laughed, the more he thought we were laughing at him. So he started bringing it up even more often, like a teenager trying to prove how tough he is by bringing up topics that make him look vulnerable. I know I’m going to die sometime soon, he said on the way home from the doctor’s office. It was a Friday evening and I was driving. He was sitting in the passenger seat and our six-year-old son was in the back with his friend from school in case we got stuck in traffic. I feel fine, Hal continued. But I know I’m going to die soon. Like, within the next two years. Probably sooner than that. I squinted at the road ahead of me and said nothing. We hadn’t spoken about his stomach pain, what had initially tipped him off to the possibility of gallstones, so he had no idea that I knew something was wrong.
#4 Hal was diagnosed with cancer six months after his wife gave birth to twins.

Sujets

• Autobiography
• The Women
• Woman
• Biography
• Women

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 08 octobre 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798350031980
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

Insights on Rebecca Woolf's All of This
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 3
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The stoplights are out on Wilshire and all along San Vicente approaching Cedars-Sinai. I am driving with my hazards on so the cars behind me don’t honk. Hal is sitting next to me, padded with pillows so the seatbelt doesn’t press against his abdomen. I learned this trick after my C-section when our twin daughters were in the NICU after being born six weeks premature.

#2

I am driving with my hazards on because I learned this trick after my C-section when my twins were in the NICU after being born six weeks premature.

#3

Hal is going to die. He’s always dying. It was a running joke in our relationship, his preoccupation with his own mortality, and we couldn’t help but laugh about it. The more we laughed, the more he thought we were laughing at him. So he started bringing it up even more often, like a teenager trying to prove how tough he is by bringing up topics that make him look vulnerable. I know I’m going to die sometime soon, he said on the way home from the doctor’s office. It was a Friday evening and I was driving. He was sitting in the passenger seat and our six-year-old son was in the back with his friend from school in case we got stuck in traffic. I feel fine, Hal continued. But I know I’m going to die soon. Like, within the next two years. Probably sooner than that. I squinted at the road ahead of me and said nothing. We hadn’t spoken about his stomach pain, what had initially tipped him off to the possibility of gallstones, so he had no idea that I knew something was wrong.

#4

Hal was diagnosed with cancer six months after his wife gave birth to twins.

#5

Hal was diagnosed with cancer six months after his wife gave birth to twins. He was moved to tears by two young people in love. He was crying because he was happy for them, or maybe sad for himself. Nothing mattered outside of their moment.

#6

You will die this year. You will be survived by four children. And your wife of 13+ years. And the leased car currently parked in your driveway will be returned scratch-free.

#7

I had a gallstone attack, which was misdiagnosed as I. V. F. cancer, and it turned out to be bad gallstones. I'm hoping to get pregnant again soon.

#8

You will die this year. You will be survived by four children. And your wife of 13+ years. And the leased car currently parked in your driveway will be returned scratch-free.

#9

You will die this year. You will be survived by four children. And your wife of 13+ years. And the leased car currently parked in your driveway will be returned scratch-free.

#10

You will die this year. You will be survived by four children. And your wife of 13+ years. And the leased car currently parked in your driveway will be returned scratch-free.

#11

You will die this year. You will be survived by four children. And your wife of 13+ years. And the leased car currently parked in your driveway will be returned scratch-free.

#12

I had a gallstone attack, which was misdiagnosed as I. V. F. cancer, but it turned out to be bad gallstones. I’m hoping to get pregnant again soon.

#13

We got married because I was pregnant. We had been dating for four months when, after my period was three weeks late, I bought a pregnancy test at the Rite Aid on La Brea. I didn't tell him I was taking one, but my roommate knew.

#14

You will die this year, and be survived by four children. Your wife of 13+ years, and the leased car currently parked in your driveway will be returned scratch-free.

#15

Hal didn’t have the patience for night feedings or night changes, so I took on 100 percent of the responsibility. My marriage was stable only when I was willing to do everything in my power not to trigger him. Hal was a musician who came to Los Angeles to perform, but he got a girl he barely knew pregnant. He had to get a day job with benefits.

#16

You will die this year, and be survived by four children. Your wife of 13+ years, and the leased car currently parked in your driveway will be returned scratch-free.