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[notletrest]

As the last paragraph reads, "For the women of my generation who were urged to keep juggling through the '80s, downshifting in the mid-'90s is not so much a search for the mythical good life -- growing your own organic vegetables, and risking turning into one -- as a personsal regcognition of your limitations." {ret219}

My trouble is what kind of persons one is.
Thanks!

[5jj]

... growing your own organic vegetables, and risking turning into one (vegetable) ...

[notletrest]

... growing your own organic vegetables, and risking turning into one (vegetable) ...

I agree with you.
Thanks!

[charliedeut]

I agree with you.
Thanks!

Remember you can use the like button instead of thanking anyone in a separate post

[notletrest]

Remember you can use the like button instead of thanking anyone in a separate post

Thanks! But I can't use the button of "like".

[Barb_D]

Why not? The link is in the lower right corner of the post you want to like. It's nice to know you helped someone, but the "like" link accomplishes that without making us think that you had a follow-on question because there's a new post in the thread.

[BobK]

... growing your own organic vegetables, and risking turning into one (vegetable) ...

In case the meaning isn't clear to everyone, this form of hyperbole is so common that a native speaker of English might not even recognize it as hyperbolic. But it's a common drawback of growing your own fruit and vegetables that when things are in season you end up eating them all the time, and people say things like 'Not again Mum. If I eat any more runner beans I'll turn into one.'

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[notletrest]

Why not? The link is in the lower right corner of the post you want to like. It's nice to know you helped someone, but the "like" link accomplishes that without making us think that you had a follow-on question because there's a new post in the thread.

Oh, I see. Thankss!