With the mayor always away at work, I quickly began to feel like Snow White wrangling woodland creatures in our home. But the difficulties of our relationship have never come from that. The only thing that’s annoying about Peter’s lifestyle is how reasonable and laid back he is about, well, everything. This can have its advantages; for example, when Peter bought the house, he painted the kitchen the most awful shade of yellow—a yellow so neon I had wondered if it was a mistake he hadn’t had time to fix. When he went on a trip during the presidential campaign, I hired a handyman to paint it
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