They had been married for 24 years, raised two kids and worked through three dogs, two houses and four careers cummulatively. His fury had been growing to this moment for about 14 of those years. “Do you want to talk about what’s wrong?” Marjorie asked her husband cautiously in the kitchen. He held a half-cracked egg over a pan as he turned to her. In a low, flat tone he said, “I’m just pretty furious.” “Okay,” she said, with a tremor in her voice. “Do you wanna tell me why?”

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