Friday, June 3, 2011

Post-Partum


Already Rita's pregnancy seemed so long ago.  The pillow laid vertically to ease her backache, the opened copy of Nine Months Made Easy, and Doug's pocketwatch, borrowed for its second hand - they struck him as faintly pathetic, like souvenirs of some old infatuation.

                                                                                                              Saint Maybe - Anne Tyler

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