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D@mn Deedee! The woman should be forced to
sit in jail for a week without her makeup kits.

I am not quite ready to forgive her, but I do feel ready to work to get there.

How odd to feel confused that your husband is telling the truth.

Think of me as a knight with tarnished armor.

Is this husband number six or seven?

Actually, I’ve lost count, but nobody can ever accuse me of being always a bridesmaid but never a bride.

It reminded me of you because you are my sandbar. I was lost at sea, and then you showed up. My dry land.

I still can’t believe just how many ways in which you have enlightened my life. You are the second half of my heart nowadays,

It seems as if you see me exactly as I wish to be seen. There is no greater gift than that.

every time I see you I soften, reminded of how you still choose kindness over anger at every step.

with you, I felt like I could talk, finally. Talk about anything and everything.

And what a pleasure you were to listen to as well.

Carrie Allsop, you are never the woman no one will ask to dance. I will be here dancing with you for as long as we want to get groovy.

I feel like the girl at the party nobody wants to dance with.

I am not alone at the party. You are at this miserable party with me. And it brings a smile to my face to be standing next to you.

You did a wonderful job of cheering me up. I was laughing through my tears, and that is quite a gift.

“I have never loved before. If this is what love is.” I cannot believe he wrote that to her. Days later, I still hear it reverberating in my head over and over and over. I have never felt so alone.

I’ve always been struck by the idea that you can’t be all that happy something has returned if it doesn’t go away in the first place. But what if the thing goes away and never comes back? Is it corny to say my heart feels like an eternal December with no April in sight?

When I lived in Boston, April was my favorite month. In the fall, I used to watch as the leaves went from green to yellow to orange and red. And then I always hated December—that was when they fell off, and it seemed like they would never come back. But then April came around, and the sun came out and the leaves started sprouting and life began again. It seemed like the most exquisite thing in the world.

My world is black and white, and you are Technicolor.

You must know we could never be a one-time thing. We are once-in-a-lifetime paramours.

“May we meet in another life.”

Does he make you scream so loud the people in the next room complain? Because I do. I know how to do that to you.
[I was NOT expecting something that explicit. 🫣]

steak on the grill and french fries from a bag. A father-made delicacy, I assure you.

Did you know that if you cut up strawberries and put sugar on them, you can refer to them as “macerated”? I felt very accomplished serving “macerated strawberries.”

I had enjoyed how easy it was to share things with you when you were just a faceless person a few hours away.

You told me it was gray, but you are selling yourself short. It still has a salt-and-pepper look to it, especially the way it darkens on the sides. It’s very becoming. To be frank, that was my first thought: He doesn’t give himself enough credit.

The whole thing was a bit disorienting, to be honest. I felt like I knew you so well, and yet I had only just laid eyes on you.

I’m 5’9” with long brown hair and brown eyes and wire-rimmed glasses.

there is a thin line between a good idea and a god-awful one, so if I’ve crossed a line even suggesting it, I understand.

The doctor can’t say for sure why I am not yet pregnant, but it seems clear that something is wrong with me. He even said it was likely pointless to test Ken. He said it most often lies with the woman. What more evidence do I need that I’m deficient?

(What now? The woman?!)

Thirty and single and childless without even so much as a secretary position on my résumé. I’ll be a joke.

since the shock of the twins, being intimate with Janet always makes me nervous. It feels like I am just begging for more to be responsible for.
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Sometimes I think the insecurity this brings up is the hardest part. Do you ever feel that way?

It’s almost as if realizing she was lying about one thing has made me realize how often she and I lie to one another about small things.

Lying has just become so much easier than telling the truth. I don’t remember when things got so hard. But life has been a matter of keeping our heads above water for years now.

David: I’ve gone fully gray at the age of thirty-seven.

I think of going back to school every now and again. But Ken has been clear about wanting me to stay home and spend my energies on getting pregnant. He says if it’s not happening when I’m home and relaxed, it’s definitely not going to happen if I’m up and out of the house all day.

We got married in Boston when I was twenty-one.

My mother has always told me that I have more opportunities, as a woman of my generation, than she ever had. She made it seem like I had an obligation to use them how she would have. But, honestly, I just wanted to marry a nice man who made a good living and have children. I guess I’m no women’s libber.