Actually, when John died, for the first time I thought - for the first time I realized how … - Joan Didion

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Stand-up is an amazing art form, I think, because it's all about you having complete control of the situation, but absolutely none.

Joan Didion

Actually, when John died, for the first time I thought - for the first time I realized how old I was, because I'd always thought of myself - when John was alive I saw myself through his eyes and he saw me as how old I was when we got married - and so when he died I kind of looked at myself in a different way. And this has kept on since then. The yellow corvette. When I gave up the yellow corvette, I literally gave up on it, I turned it in on a Volvo station wagon.

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