Pre-Occupied With This Woman All Night And Very Hungover The Next Morning BUT At No Time Did Mrs. CarPeo Get Jealous

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Also, Mrs. CarPeo

was alongside me when

I stood three feet away from this woman

—mesmerized—

but said not a word

because fifty people were standing

in line halfway across the room
waiting to do the same thing

In truth,

Mrs. Carpeo

was equally hungover

the next morning despite the fact

that neither of us drank

any alcohol the night before

We were both hungover

with delight from laughing

so much at someone

whose purpose in life

is to make people laugh

That hangover might very well

have been shared by

the one thousand other people

in the audience for

Paula Poundstone

You could have asked twenty of them

what was their favorite line

from Paula was

and you would get

twenty different answers

and they'd all be correct

But,

on January 19, 2019

at the Carpenter Center,

our favorite Poundstone joke was

I have difficulty with short term memory

but I don't think of it as a problem,

I think of it as a presidential quality

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