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"On such a night, my wife would have ordinarily have slipped on a cardigan and searched for her shower slippers. How long she might have been standing there like that—barefoot, in thin summer nightwear, ramrod straight as though perfectly oblivious to my repeated interrogation? Her face was turned away from me, and she was standing there so unnaturally still it was almost as if she were some kind of ghost." Dec 25, 2024 12:31PM

 
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