Tagged: Family (813)

T 3940

After the car accident he started misbehaving and one day his wife said, Who do you think you are? and this hurt him because of his amnesia.

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T 3935

He picks up the ancient newspaper, jaundice colored, and he lights his pipe and his mother enters the room and says, No really, who are you?

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T 3933

He had a headache. The kids wouldn’t stop with their inane questions. He said, Take my laptop and go. Soon the kids had even more questions.

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T 3931

He’s going to go for a walk. I’m going for a walk, he announces. But there is no one home to hear him. And so the walk seems almost useless.

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T 3928

It was too much house. They both knew it. But they were dazzled by the thing. He saw possibilities. So did she. But they were different ones.

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T 3920

Deer. Doing something he hasn’t yet told the kids about. In front of his kids. They look at their father. Waiting. Her butt’s itchy, he says.

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T 3903

He enters the bedroom wearing a pink jockstrap and she says, What now? and he says, Here I go, and she’s confused and he says, I want a baby

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T 3899

He recalls the mustiness of his grandparents’ house, the smell of old sponge. And that’s why we can’t have sex, he tells the girl on his lap

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T 3877

Gretchen looks at the dishwasher and says, You bought me a dishwasher? and his smile vanishes and he says, Too soon? and then she hates him.

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T 3863

Her kid was sent home from school; he wouldn’t stop saying “the big burrito” over and over. That’s when she knew: He’d been in her computer.

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