“There was always a Karen, even before the first one. There was a past–life Karen and a prenatal Karen, and a Karen who took me from my mother to lay me down gently in the bassinet in the hospital where I was born.
“And there were undoubtedly Karens who took care of me from time to time in my very early years, who spelled my mother when she was tired, who played with me, bathed me with tenderness, took me for walks, holding on to one hand as I tottered along exploring my universe.
“But the first Karen in my life was none of these. She has the distinction of being not only the first one I slept with but the first one I married…” from Chapter One of Eleven Karens, a new novel by Peter Lefcourt (Simon & Schuster). Read more in the Washington Post.
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