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Luxuries and fine goods had been scarce in Iceland's penurious past

everything had gone well under her aegis

Women were spinsters before the word became pejorative, when distaff meant the female side of the family.

Others' woes can be used as reproaches and sometimes are: how dare you think about your own private suffering when wars are raging and children are being bombed? There is always someone whose suffering is greater than yours. The reproaches are often framed as though there is an economy of suffering…

Even after losing the perfidious boyfriend