Then one day the marriage stopped working. Both of them new it. When did this happen? they wondered. He figured it was last week’s pot roast.
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T 4087
She puts her magazine down and says, Let’s raise chickens, and he says, We live in a condo, and that’s how he found himself suddenly single.
T 4086
The dog. He had his alibi. I love you, he told the dog. And then the scream from the kitchen. Honey! she called. You stupid dog! he yelled.
T 4079
Technology is so awesome, he thinks. He takes his wife’s hand. Look at me, she tells him. Our neighbor’s bikini is nicer than yours, he says.
T 4077
He sat on the couch watching TV. The ladies in the dining room were talking about him. I’m not a conversation piece, he yelled. To laughter.
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He watches her in the yard, working the soil, her dirty hands. I dig you! he says and she manages a smile. She knows it’s the best he can do.
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The children are relentless, as children often are. She dreams of tequila and burritos and turns to her husband and says, Let them eat cake.
T 4063
I’m going to grill a pork chop and pour myself bourbon and smoke a cigar on the patio. Because that’s what I do each time my wife leaves me.
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The kids arrive and everyone digs into the bounty at the table and he says, Let me tell you a story, and everyone groans. But no one leaves.
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The clatter of children in the background, a soundtrack to remind him, to keep him honest. But when the kids are silent he dreams of freedom.
