People
We never talked, my family. We communicated by putting Ann Landers articles on the refrigerator.
— Judy Gold
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The speaker says the family communicated through articles placed on the refrigerator instead of talking. The contrast makes an ordinary household surface into a substitute conversation. One reading is a joke about indirect communication, where someone else's printed words carry messages family members leave unsaid themselves.
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