I am now discovering that nothing in my life has ever been "traditional" except for the fact that I became a mother at the same age my mother became a mother with me.
Which makes it, as Winston Churchill said, the worst form of government ever, except for all the others.
Same as it ever was except for the Internet part.
Nothing is ever done except for the constant filling out of accident forms.
The white coat for parades was introduced in 1913, and has been used ever since, except for the years 1917-'22.
The Belmont Stakes has been run at Belmont Park ever since, except for the years 1963 to 1968, when it was run at Aqueduct Race Track because the grandstand at Belmont was being rebuilt.
As the years pass, he reports, the collective breasts "drooped ever lower (except for the spooky rejiggered racks that now bounced)." And switching to a 20-something's point of view is no excuse for "They had great sex, he knew tons of cool people, including the mayor, and they were invited to some really happening parties.
He has been living in the city ever since — except for the winter of 1937, which he spent in Dayton, Ohio, where his mother had gone to live, and where she had suffered an accident that led to her death; the two years, from 1943 to 1945, that he served in the Merchant Marine as a baker and cook; and the two years, from 1955 to 1957, that he spent in Rome, as a fellow of the American Academy.
"It is by far the most powerful explosion humans have ever detected except for the big bang," he says.
