"are you married?"

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The other day on the phone, my 95-year-old mother, whose hearing and other faculties are not as sharp as once, asked me brightly, "Are you married?"

And when I told her yes, I had been married for 25-plus years, she commented, "Twenty years is a pretty long time."

A million million stories take shape in a single observation.

One drop of water and the oceans fill up with gaiety.

You expected something else?
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