I realized that you can get so used to certain luxuries that you start to think theyre necessities, but when you have to forgo them, you come to see that you dont need them after all. There was a big difference between needing things and wanting thingsthough a lot of people had trouble telling the two apartand at the ranch, I could see, wed have pretty much everything wed need but precious little else.
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Jeannette Walls was a contemporary American writer and journalist. Jeannette Walls is an American author and journalist widely known as former gossip columnist for MSNBC.com and author of The Glass Castle, a memoir of the nomadic family life of her childhood. Published in 2005, it had been on the New York Times Best Seller list for 421 weeks as of June 3, 2018. Read more on Wikipedia →