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Pauline Mole 37

Thursday June 17th

I have just found a list at the bottom of my mother’s shopping bag.

 

FOR IT

Might be a girl

More family allowance

 

AGAINST IT

Loss of Independence

George doesn’t want it

Months of looking like the side of a house

Pain during labour

Adrian bound to be jealous

Dog might not take to it

Am I too old at 37?

Varicose veins

PAS

Sue Townsend  ·  The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole

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Merle Coverdale

The Ballad of Peckham Rye

Muriel Spark

"Merle Coverdale was head of the typing pool at Meadows, Meade & Grindley. She was thirty-seven..."

37

Ramona Donsell

Herzog

Saul Bellow

"She was thirty-seven or thirty-eight years of age, he shrewdly reckoned, and this meant that she was looking for a husband..."

37

Eve Bolsover

The Love Department

William Trevor

"‘You are thirty-seven. It’s an age of discretion, Eve.’"