T 5370

It was a warm day, and he felt the first stirrings of love. He said, Take off your shoes, and she did and he said, I like my women stronger.

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T 5369

He didn’t want to be that person, the dark figure in the office parking lot, but he had a lousy parking spot, because he was bad at his job.

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T 5368

He asks her why she won’t answer his email and she says, It must have gone into spam, and she notes his posture and says, It’s not symbolic.

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T 5367

His father smelled funny. It’s what he most remembered about him. He thought this as he washed his own son’s pants. About the power of genes.

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T 5366

And then he met her father. She had said she’d looked like him, and now he saw how true it was. They shook hands. You’re beautiful, he said.

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T 5365

She gives him a paper bag and says, My heart’s inside. He drives off with the paper bag. It flies out the car window. But he doesn’t notice.

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T 5264

She struggles awkwardly with the recycling bin. He wants to dismiss her. But can’t. Everyone will make fun of us, he sighs with resignation.

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T 5263

I was starving and ran into the kitchen and from the bedroom my wife yelled out, Don’t touch the ham! and I touched the ham and she left me.

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T 5262

He brought her flowers and an expensive Pinot. She kissed him deeply. He said, My wife doesn’t love you like I do. And that killed the mood.

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T 5261

He cups her foot in his hand. I don’t really need shoes, she tells him. He stands and says, Then what? She wishes she’d gotten the pedicure.

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