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The idea arrived a few weeks after the no, the way her best ideas always arrive — not as a thunderclap but as a thing she had apparently been quietly building in the back of herself while the front of her got on with the grey-green collection.
She told me over chai, on an ordinary morning, in the plain voice she uses for things she has already decided and is now simply informing me of as a courtesy, which is one of my favourite of her voices. There is a particular pleasure in being married long enough to have catalogued the voices of the person you love — the work-voice and the worry-voice and the voice she uses for her mother and the rare flat one that means a thing is already settled and beyond debate. I have spent twenty years learning hers, and I am still finding new ones, which...
My Playful Wife is a serialized tender literary audiobook about marriage and family, written by Mia. New episodes daily.