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  1. Public Bookmark 26

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    Ever since she was nineteen, she’s been promised by purportedly older and wiser women that there would come a time that she would stop enjoying having sex with her husband. And for close to three decades she has, with varying degrees of discretion, rolled her eyes at that suggestion. Lorraine gets feisty after coming home from bible study. Ed has no complaints.

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    18 Sep 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 8

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    All she could grab ahold of in her mind’s eye was the dark corridor of Judy’s apartment and a closed bedroom door. Behind it, a weak voice. A whisper, begging for something.

    Lorraine sat up and ran her hands over her face; the longer she laid still, the faster her heart skipped, and she couldn’t bear the uncertainty. She felt Judy’s fear and couldn’t stand to go to sleep with it pushing against her own mind.

    “I’m calling her,” said Lorraine while she tossed away the duvet and set her feet to the floor. She was down the stairs before Ed could say a thing.

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    17 Sep 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 24

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    She lays in bed in the dark, curtains drawn, for nearly a day with her rosary wrapped so tightly around her hand that the beads carve bruised divots into her palm. Mumbling the latinate prayers she was raised on, she allows her surroundings to fade. The world whittles down to the mattress under her body, the afghan pressing against her cheek, and the beads wound into her fingers.

    Lorraine? Hon? You don’t have to - I just want to know you’re okay.

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    15 Sep 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 11

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    Ed looked at her, knowing she felt pretty and was enjoying the good food, and his chest twitched with the urge to tell her everything he felt. To tell her how soft her skin looked, how warm her smile made him feel, how happy he was to do all this and make her happy for a little while.

    How he wished they could stay here in their laughter, just like this, and never have to hurt again.

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    15 Sep 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 16

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    Lorraine imagined the confession booth in the church. She imagined kneeling on scraped knees, setting her bruised, self-battered arms on a slat of wood and folding her aching hands.

    Forgive me, Father, for I have –

    She touched the back of her hand to her mouth, feeling so incredibly ill for a split second.

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    14 Sep 2025