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Occasionally I try to "relate" to the kids by asking them to fetch Daddy a beer, but I sense that they are drifting away--that I have become, for them, every bit as useless, burdensome, and low-yielding in immediate practical utility as they are for me.
We both move around a lot in our sleep, and I really don't like it when a toenail pokes me somewhere unpleasant just as I am drifting off.
7. "From the most recent issue of the Atlantic : 'When they envision their future, Xers don't just see a government drifting toward the political equivalent of Chapter 11 ; they also see a crippled social structure, a dwindling middle class, and a despoiled natural habitat.
Instead, the talk is drifting in the direction of turning the House of Lords into an anglified U.S.
At home, in their brief stops,they glide effortlessly up the ladder of good schools,ladder of yard space, of techno-buttonsin the family room, vehicles lined on the drive,the whole ensemble an island drifting further and further from the rotted core.