How to Be Good (Nick Hornby) ***** troubling good

[livingbyfiction]

A few years ago I read a newspaper story about a senior accountant who started giving away all his money because it was the right and rational thing to do.  They quoted his wife saying, "It wasn't the first 2 million that was hard to give up, it was the last $90,000, when we had to move to a smaller house and could no longer afford the kinds of

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[lesliesage]

No, Sue, you can't have my kidney.

[livingbyfiction]

I shall sabotage your gallbladder.

[froggandie]

I gave away my 10-dollar houseplant.

That was actually a 3.99-dollar houseplant. So it could've fed only 2/5 of a family, anyway.

[livingbyfiction]

I disagree. Plantie probably only has 15 calories total. That only feeds Mary Kate OR Ashley for one day.