<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=463565" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Troubling Moment</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was all very troubling: <br>after seven years of marriage to her whiny husband<br>with whom he exchanged a functional loathing<br>when their virtual twin-ship must needs be admitted<br>in spite of biological differences, by all involved, <br>when Fortune seemed to shine again, <br>his sister began to show; smiled mysteriously<br>informing the table at dinner one night, 'Yes, it was true'<br>confirming her first pregnancy at thirty-three.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He contributed to the round of clapping<br>the oohs and ahs of genuine delight; <br>too, tinked his water glass with a nearby fork, <br>the tedious wedding enacted again<br>in a smaller, more intimate version, <br>but it made him uneasy.<br>It was the usual thing: love-neutralized venom-<br>he didn't like it-it gave him indigestion, <br>the now-endless prospect of blame.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And then she raised her glass<br>and took a sober little sip of water<br>having given up table wine a month before<br>and looking sideways at her father swallowed<br>her eyes full of love and shared, secret triumph<br>in acknowledgement of their unassailable, <br>their special bond. She had done what she could: <br>the future was up to itself.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Morgan+Michaels">Morgan Michaels</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=463565" data-title="A Troubling Moment de Morgan Michaels" data-description="It was all very troubling: after seven years of marriage to her whiny husband with whom he exchanged a functional loathing when their virtual twin-ship must needs be admitted in spite of biological differences, by all involved, when Fortune seem..."></div> </div> </div>

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