| It's quiet in the house as I sit down to
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| | toward women's clothes and household
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| an early breakfast watching the TV news,
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| | knickknacks. She drags me through the
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| a favorite book readied by me side for
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| | stores looking for bargains, exchanging
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| the commercials. A faint noise from
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| | the items she bought last week for new
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| above and a slithery sound on the stairs
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| | ones. She asks my opinion on wall
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| sibnals the premature arrival of my
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| | sconces, sweater sets, cooking pots,
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| spouse, ready to do battle. 'Good
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| | flower arrangements and glassware. My
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| mornings' are followed by a crashing a
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| | priorities are strictly based on function
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| cacophony from the direction of the
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| | and quality. Her priorities are exact
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| dishwasher which is being emptied. Then
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| | matching shades of color, how it will fit
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| sink sounds plow through the air to my
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| | in with the other ten thousand
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| sensitive ears, completely covering the
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| | knickknacks, and whether the store will
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| breaking news. the message in this
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| | take it back.Soon I find myself three
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| performance is that there is a lot of
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| | steps behind, finding places to sit down,
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| work to do today and I had beter help her
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| | getting into conversations with the sales
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| do it. I counter by mentioning al the
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| | people and mimicking E.T. saying "Home".
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| things I had already performed to no
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| | A remark that she never goes shopping
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| avail. I suggest that she make out a
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| | with me to Sears Hardware or Crazy Max's
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| list of projects waiting to be done but
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| | Electronic Wonderland is met with a blank
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| get only a long harangue on how the last
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| | stare, a half smile, and a look that
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| list she made twenty years ago was half
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| | means an out-of-hand dismissal of the
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| crossed off and the other half ignored.
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| | idea. The only saving of the day is a
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| What a memory!I have become adept at
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| | nice coffee and yogurt break in the
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| pattering on conversationally to a stony
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| | middle.Through all the variations of
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| face and buttoned lips. The meaning
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| | meaningful looks, reminders of past
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| contained in this feminine language
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| | mistakes and silent treatments, the
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| translates that I have said or done
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| | expression I see on her face of pure
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| something completely unsympathetic or
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| | happiness when presented with an
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| have not done something supportive to her
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| | unexpected bouquet of flowers or a needed
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| cause. I usually try to jump over this
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| | chore done while she was last minute food
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| lack of communication by announcing the
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| | shopping for guests makes her secret
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| start of a new project dear to her heart,
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| | language all worth while.Next year we'll
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| hoping that the real cause of her silence
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| | be married for 40 years. I've been in
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| will reveal itself.An offer to go
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| | love with the same woman all that time.
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| shopping with her brings on a instant
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| | No, not great - if my wife finds out,
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| happy response, in spite of the knowledge
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| | she'll kill me. Just kidding.
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| of my notoriously short attention span
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