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Everyone worked toward the same goal, even if it was capitalism.
I had a year of law school, so I could bullshit with anybody.
In my experience, things that go without saying sometimes need to be said.
Lucinda lifted an eyebrow, and I translated disapproval, since my wife’s eyebrows contain our marital vocabulary.
A stack of dishes, a pile of Lucinda’s handbags. The detritus of our family.
a shell without structure, unable to bear weight.
obeying the pull of the moon.
The water flowed inexorably to the bay, a hushed rushing.
a room that used to be mine, in a house where I no longer lived.
That’s the way marriage was, I realized in that moment. There was a thing you always worried about, barely a crack, running down the middle between the two of you, and you hope it will go away, but it can widen like a tectonic plate, break open beneath your feet, and swallow you whole.
At dinner, we faked it for his benefit. I wondered if there was a married couple who hadn’t.
a night so dark that I couldn’t tell the difference between land and sky.
Maybe a hero was just a guy who solved a problem.
‘Decide what you want and do what gets it.’ ” Dom nodded. “Nothing else matters. No rules, no laws. Not what you should want. Not being right. Not your pride.”
standing between the land and the water, clinging to each other under the moon.
