Is that a lemon? he asks the grocer, and she rolls her eyes, again, and he smiles. And says, That’s the glue to our relationship. She knows.
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T 4003
He sees something on her scalp and picks it off, and she kisses him. You’re my gorilla, she coos. He grunts for her. You have lice, he says.
T 3994
We lived well. And then we didn’t. There was a rupture. Some lives were ruined. Some more than others. She blamed me. For once she was right.
T 3993
She hung up the phone and threw a paperweight at the wall and her mother asked her why she did that and she said, He lied about being brave.
T 3990
And then after he had finished with brunch, he saw her across the way, and she was wearing sweatpants, and he walked up to her and said, Yes.
T 3988
They walk slowly, falling in love while the world swirls around them. You’d make a sexy girl, she says. That night, he has trouble sleeping.
T 3987
The wind rose and he couldn’t make himself heard above it. He was saying something poetic and she thought he was complaining. He kind of was.
T 3982
After several hours she just stopped walking and said, Why am I here? and he hesitated before answering and he said, Because I won’t let go.
T 3981
The bottle was empty and the laughter subsided. He said, Man, we’re such children. She agreed. There was silence. Let’s be adults, she said.
T 3980
The sushi was bad. The traffic was bad. The situation was worse. And she saw everything. And she still called him back. It was a good story.
