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