We conclude our June round of Fightin’ Words with Kristine Langley Mahler, author of this month’s featured memoir, “Good Sorts.” Here, she shares the single best word (or number!) for:
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1) The smell that brings you back to the best time in your life: piñon
2) Your last dream: remarriage
3) Covering your tracks: LOOK!
4) Your sense of style: 1998
5) The most beautiful thing to say: October
6) The hottest day of the year: birthday
7) What you’re hungry for: enough
8) Deletion from the dictionary: It hasn’t made it in yet, but OMG I would do anything to make people stop saying the self-congratulatory verb “adulting”