TOS of Chat with Mom & Sis on 77 Years of Living!

When I was thinking about our chat, and Mom, you might be like, "Jesus Christ, Nadine, I can't think of this," but I was thinking, can you look back over 77 beautiful years? Is there a year that was easy?

For me?

Yeah.

A year that was easy.

Uh, uh, I can't think of any year that was easier than others.

Um, I, I don't...

I, no.

I really, I really couldn't pinpoint anything, sweetheart.

I think maybe a period more than a year to define the specific time, is when you guys all graduated and were in university, kind of in your own levels of independence.

That was, uh...

When I look back on it, at the time I probably didn't realize that it was, it was a really big milestone.

Uh, but that was a freedom that I felt.

Uh, not a letting go of responsibility, 'cause I was still responsible for you to a certain degree.

But I think that that was a freeing time in my being caught up in your lives, because you'd become, you know, quasi-independent, even though you still depended on me for transportation and finances and stuff [laughs].

But that, that, uh, my having to be, uh, you know, the, the manager of your, your time, your, your social lives, your entertainment, your, uh, responsibilities, all of that kind of like just was, whoa, this is wonderful.

So that was...

And I felt that for many, many years after, because it was a freeing up of, of my time, you know? I, I-

Is that when Danielle caught you on the highway driving to work, having a smoke, even though you quit smoking when we were all little? That's when she was like, "What? Oh, those idiots." [laughs]

It wasn't even like...

It was like...

[laughs]

And the whole car was, like, full of smoke, and I was like, "Oh, God."

I remember this-

"What a gross face."

I remember this age 'cause I was still living at home in university, and I remember this song came out by Meredith Brooks, um, "I'm a bitch, I'm a tease." And I remember distinctly [laughs] being, like, at my desk, I think I was like...