Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship by Gail Caldwell

Author:Gail Caldwell
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Autobiography, Friends and associates, Caldwell, Critics - United States, Editors, Literary, Caroline, Publishers, American Journalism, Journalists, Critics, Gail - Friends and associates, Journalists - United States, Women, Knapp, United States, Personal Memoirs, Caroline - Friends and associates, General, 1959-2002, Women In The U.S., Biography & Autobiography, Biography
ISBN: 9781400067381
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
Published: 2010-09-15T07:00:00+00:00

PRIVATELY, AND NOT altogether in jest, we believed that all people could be consigned to dog breeds. “God, he is such an apricot poodle,” Caroline would say about someone vain or entitled, or, between her teeth, about a woman who brayed: “Beagle.” Morelli listened to us doing this during a walk one afternoon and stopped in his tracks; he had gone from amused to incredulous: “You guys are really serious about this, aren’t you?” This taxonomy became a code for human personality, and whenever anyone would wander onto our field of attention, the inevitable question became which breed he or she might be. We enjoyed making Morelli a chocolate Lab (great heart, sense of humor) and I insisted Caroline was a collie (smart, high-strung, loyal), but for years we pondered where I belonged. Finally one day at the beginning of a walk she declared her research over.

“I’ve decided what breed you are,” she said with dry certainty. I swallowed; this was important stuff. She paused before giving me the verdict: “A young female German shepherd dog.”

“Oh—but …” I was flustered and a little unnerved. “I mean, they’re really great dogs,” I said, “and I know they’re smart and everything. But they’re so serious. And they’re herders—they’re so bossy, they run every other dog into the ground.”

Her smile was her answer. “Well, that’s why I made you a young female,” she said. “To soften it a little.”

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