While she was away, he'd forgotten how powerfully she broadcast her feelings, filling the house like a kind of nerve gas.
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There was mystery at the heart of any of marriage, secrets even people close to it would never know.
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Theirs was a private language, not shared with the rest of the world, and so exempt from censure, sheer burlesque.
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Maybe he was old-fashioned, but to him a couple meant a strong bond, with positive and negative charges constantly arcing between them.
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There was a lot about Kim and J.P. he didn't get.... he was confused by their lack of romance. As a father, he was at times grateful for that missing intensity, but as a man who liked to surprise his wife with flowers, it baffled him. Maybe he was old-fashioned, but to him a couple meant a strong bond, with positive and negative charges constantly arcing between them. He'd never seen Kim and J.P. kiss, let alone argue.
Tags: sparks, romance, passion, love, intensity, couples, bond
You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved.
Tags: worth, love, life, acceptance
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