Clarissa

I wanted to turn and shout for Clarissa, but they were watching me, I knew, and I had blustered so much up there I was ashamed.

If I hadn't, Logan and I might have dropped together, and Clarissa would have been sitting here alone tonight.

Clarissa was the one who toted him to the doctor and stayed up with him when he had a rough night.

As I heard it later from Clarissa, Parry had come over to her to introduce himself, then turned away to follow me down the hill.

In the early years of our marriage, Clarissa would sometimes run out of money and quietly pay for things with her personal credit card.

My guess was that Clarissa would not be back before midnight, so I abandoned myself to my serious, flimsy argument.

'It was all about the children, ' says Clarissa, who thought the experience was priceless.

I was so lost in this that I did not notice Clarissa until she sat down on the other side of the table.

Clarissa Vaughn: I remember one morning getting up at dawn, there was such a sense of possibility, you know, that feeling?

When her mother insisted she had to get something, Clarissa asked for socks.

'Do I have to move to find out how much we owe? ' I asked Clarissa.

But when the mortgage lender showed me our joint credit report, I saw that Clarissa had a couple of thousand dollars on her own card.

"She has a look. She works it with confidence, and she knows what looks good on her, " said People's Style Editor Clarissa Cruz.

Clarissa complained almost from the get-go about this bed, saying it was hard and hurt her back and hips.

In her early twenties a routine surgical procedure had left Clarissa unable to bear children.

So I'm taking Clarissa out for dinner this weekend at a Italian place that she really likes.

'If you want to drop out of the gift exchange, go ahead, ' Clarissa told me the other day. 'But the rest of us are going ahead. '

A few days later, Charlie and Clarissa went home to their dad and I had some time to look at the photos.

Clarissa's sister works in banking, and one of her brothers does construction.

Clarissa drove me nuts back in 1982 when she purchased a $79 six-month membership at a gym and went exactly three times before it expired.

Over the days and weeks, Clarissa and I told our story many times to friends, colleagues and relatives.

In fact, Clarissa believes one of her strengths is that she's flexible.

Clarissa was back with her book, stuffing it into her briefcase while she held some other papers between her teeth.

In any event, Clarissa thinks any talk from me about not being as cheap as before is beside the point.

My wife, Clarissa, and I have also purchased some of these machines of torture for home use.

But I figured, what the heck. If it made Clarissa feel better, we could justify it.

Clarissa: You do have good days still. You know you do.

In the meantime, Clarissa has already made some quick improvements to the kitchen to make it workable.

Periodically, I bring up the subject of Clarissa rejoining the work force.

The next morning, I woke up a little sore and Clarissa woke up a lot sore.

I asked Clarissa about it once, and she said she planned to return it to the store.

Clarissa thinks this looks awful and that it's dangerous to have a gas flame right next to an exterior door.

I'm generally getting less bent out of shape when my wife, Clarissa, and the kids spend money on things I consider a waste.

A waitress in an Italian restaurant in New Jersey recently pulled the same number on my wife, Clarissa, and me.

In a sense, Richardson's epistolary novel Clarissa reveals the uncertainty of interpretation.

It was 1982. Clarissa and I were on a belated honeymoon when I spotted this seafood restaurant.

To Clarissa, the fact I mentioned the coffee pot at all shows I haven't really changed.

Clarissa Acuna, the woman I married, also planned on having a career of her own.

Her distraught father attacks her best friend, Clarissa, in the cornfield where Susie was murdered, inexplicably mistaking Clarissa for Mr.

Clarissa drinks just one cup a day. So we're never going to use this coffee maker unless we have company over.

But we still managed to spend $3, 000 on plane tickets, and meals, and a two-day trip to Bath because Clarissa loves Jane Austen.

Clarissa: Here, they're on this shelf. Here's a hairdryer and some rollers , too. Do you think we'll need the curling iron or the flat iron?

And here she is, herself, Clarissa, not Mrs. Dalloway anymore; there is no one now to call her that.

But we were both wrong. Clarissa hasn't worked since the summer of 1991, shortly before she delivered our third child.

'Every time we started to ponder about work, he would get sick, ' Clarissa reminds me.

Two months after our wedding, Clarissa informed me she was pregnant.

What's more interesting is that this column has changed both Clarissa and me.

Finally, I told Clarissa if she was candid about our debts, I wouldn't go ballistic.

For Clarissa, the entree is just the beginning.

I told the prayer story as comedy and made Clarissa laugh.

When it comes to dining out nowadays, Clarissa and I are true to our younger selves.

I figure Clarissa will spend less if she's in charge of sweating out paying all the bills the following month.

Clarissa said, 'Even now you do a good imitation of a trumpet in the bath.

Clarissa still isn't sure she wants to go back to work.

Clarissa knows that the war is not over for Mrs Foxcroft or Lady Bexborough who have lost sons.

I knew I had to prise her from this levity, for all the comfort it gave. 'Clarissa, it's scary.

I also sprang for a trip to London with Clarissa several years ago.

Still, Clarissa has generally decided which presents our three kids got.

My wife, Clarissa, has become quite the gardener, growing mainly flowers but some vegetables.

Once we were seated inside, Clarissa picked up her menu.

For Clarissa, official time is represented by Big Ben whose note is 'irrevocable' like ' leaden circles dissolved in the air'.

Clarissa stopped working for a while to go to college, and then stopped working for good after child No. 3 was born 16 years ago.

After that dinner, Clarissa asked who wanted coffee, and nobody did.

My wife, Clarissa, uses them for buying presents for teachers.

I hadn't gotten her anything for Valentine's Day. I saw the cheap candy and thought Clarissa would enjoy it just the same.

In our case, it's pretty much been no more Valentine anything else either. Clarissa told me early on she didn't care about the.

Clarissa: Sally, I think I'll buy the flowers myself.

I unclasped Clarissa's arms from my waist and turned.

At one point she begged him to spare Clarissa from rape.

Clarissa herself thinks of a party 'that night in Buckingham Palace. And Clarissa too gave a party'.

A more immediate problem was how to spend the evening until Clarissa's return.

Clarissa: Here, they're all in this drawer.

CLARISSA AUGUSTINUS: "It can cause what the European investors are calling reputation risk. "

But if they don't, I'll probably do the manly thing: pay whatever Clarissa says I have to pay.

She didn't. It's still sitting in our den because Clarissa says she might need it some day.

That was enough for Clarissa.

When I came back from seeing them out, I noticed that Clarissa was glancing through some lecture notes.

So Clarissa ran out and bought a large electric coffee maker for $40 before the dinner.

But Clarissa also believes she'll know the right time to return to work.

Clarissa spends more like $110 to get her hair cut and 'glazed, ' whatever that is.

Clarissa doesn't think the new kitchen will cost $50, 000.

When I married my wife, Clarissa, 28 years ago, I had all these rigid ideas on how to save money.

When we bought a house in New Jersey last month, my wife, Clarissa, told me flat out she hated the kitchen.

Clarissa, on the other hand, says she has become less impulsive about purchases.

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