The thing about New England is that it's old. Lots of people have died. There's cemeteries all over the place. This one's a block over from where we're living in town.
"This weekend I watched a bunch of old people make a sixteen-year-old girl cry 'cause they were on chocolate ice cream."
—Martha, at work, in the hallway, a few minutes ago
![about (e bot) adv: 1. on every side, all around [look about]; 2. here and there, in all directions [travel about]; 3. in circumference, around the outside [ten miles about]; 4. near [standing somewhere about]; 5. in the opposite direction, to a reversed position [turn it about]; 6. in succession or rotation [play fair turn and turn about]; 7. nearly, approximately [about four years old]; 8. [Colloq.] all but, almost [about ready]...](../images/icons/about.gif){kind=icon}
