From that day on, my husband’s sister no longer seemed to be so angry that we had gotten married, and she started phoning us all the time

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All in all, it had been a fine wedding. Enough to eat, enough to drink. Plenty of cameras

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Carl the cremator lived next door—Carl and his big wife, Brenda, who was allergic to the sun, the outdoors, anything at all that required getting off the couch. We would …

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The weaving of words: to bear in mind, to bear tidings, to bear down, to be born

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