Tease me on a Tuesday

I start my life in a kitchen floor in Manitoba, Canada and my mother dies as soon as I am born. From there I go to Winnipeg at the age of two months and live there for 11 years, with Clarentine Flett and her son Barker Flett. In 1916, my father comes to take me to Indiana, USA. I graduate there and get married to Harold Hoad in 1927. While we are on our honeymoon in Paris, Harold falls from the hotel Window and dies. I come back to my father's house in Indiana and stay there with him until 1936, when I again travel to Winnipeg and marry Barker Flett, almost immediately. We have three children. He passes away in 1955, being 23 years older than me. In my old age I do travel to Manitoba. When I die in a nursing home in Florida, I am almost 90 years.

~The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
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• Grab your current read.
• Let the book fall open to a random page.
• Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
• You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from … that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you’ve given!
• Please avoid spoilers!

"Before what?" Beans asked. "And after what?"
"Before and after intercourse."

~Page 106, The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields

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