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Anxious People

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“There's satisfaction in knowing something so well-- and knowing someone so well. Like a recipe by heart, every step, every ingredient, every taste. So familiar that it feels a part of her, as soon as her fingers dip into flour or rich skin. Each knead like an argument, each release like a kiss, until something has been made out of practically nothing, a string of separate ingredients mixed together like a courtship until they make one whole, grown stronger by each trial, each compression under two palms.”

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“I saw my wife when she was just born," Frank marveled. "Now that's having history." Now they were dying together. The doctors had them going at almost the exact same time. It stunned him, like the plot of an opera. "It's kind of romantic, in a way.”

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