Helpmeet

by Naben Ruthnum

When Edward could still read, Louise sometimes looked over his shoulder as he sat with Hazlitt’s Table Talk, the last book he would ever begin.

I wonder what the last book I’ll begin is… A book lying with a bookmark still in it that my children will have to remove and think about how I don’t know the ending. Small thing, big mental impact.

“You’re a bit pale,” Bill said. “You’re a bit fat,” Louise said.

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