Different Takes
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The club I’m lucky
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BY EMMA JANSEN ’08
Following is a chapel talk delivered on April 3, 2008 On May 12
th
, 1997, the day I joined the Dead
Dads Club, things changed. What I didn’t realize at
I
belong to a club that no one would ever choose the time was that it was also the day that I—will-
to join. One day, I didn’t even know it existed, the ingly—joined the Amazing Mothers Club. That same
next I had suddenly joined the ranks. Those of us day, my mother joined both the Dead Husbands Club
in this club don’t exactly keep it secret, but we don’t and the Single Mothers Club, but if it had any effect
color coordinate, either. It is impossible to truly on our relationship at all, it was for the better.
appreciate the consequences of membership until I do not believe that my mother is perfect. Actu-
you join, and therefore whenever you chance upon ally, she’s a bit weird. We are incredibly different. She
someone else who is part of the club, there’s an had about a million varsity letters in high school (I
instant connection, even if you don’t like the person, have zero, by the way); she is short, with brown hair,
because you understand what it’s like. There are daily skin, and eyes, and I am none of the above; she’s a
Emma Jansen ’08
reminders of your membership in this club, and you nurse, but I won’t touch medicine. We both hate it
and her mother,
Priscilla.
will be paying its dues for the rest of your life. when the other sings. She mutters angrily to herself
16 ST. GEORGE’S 2008 SUMMER BULLETIN
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