"It happened on the day the Super Plus tampon was launched, and it is one of those crazy things about life how you look forward to a particular date for a year or so, thinking only how you are going to be getting from the company a free Tshirt and all the pizza you want, not that you will get from your sister a knock on your door during your bowl of Rice-ARoni and the news that your father is dead."
"At length it was the eve of Old Lady-Day, and the agricultural world was in a fever of mobility such as only occurs at that particular date of the year."