I had grown up as a fan of Studs Terkel. In Chicago he sort of looms large and is mentioned often.
“What is it in us that makes us feel the need to keep pretending... we gotta let ourselves be.”
“I am a single mom and I'm the breadwinner and I have to work and I have to do these things and that's just the way it is. I don't think my son even knows any different.”