Positioning her fingers above the keyboard, she typed: “The Joys of Not Having It All.” She paused for a moment and, gathering her thoughts, began:
“Why shouldn’t life be easier if it can be? Accept good fortune and damn the rest.”
Acknowledgments
My thanks to Ellen Archer, Pamela Dorman, Sarah Landis, and Beth Gebhard at Voice; and to Charles Askegard, Calvin Bushnell, Sara Colleton, Duff, and Anne Hearst McInerney.
About the Author
Candace Bushnell is the author of Sex and the City, Four Blondes, and Trading Up. She has been a columnist for The New York Observer and a contributing editor to Vogue.
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Copyright
This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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