" Now the news came through a little black box that sat on top of the TV. Momma resisted the box and pronounced it a government attempt to spy on us, but the alternative meant no television since Momma refused to get cable. Momma declared cable full of pornography, though what I’d seen at Violet and Mike’s house looked perfectly respectable. "

― Denise Grover Swank , Twenty-Eight and a Half Wishes (Rose Gardner Mystery, #1)