Book Exploder: Tayari Jones - An American Marriage
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You Can't Bear to Hear About My Days
The last three times i have visited, we said almost nothing to each other. I can't go on being your wife. We were only married a year and a half before lightning struck. What we have here isn't a marriage. A marriage is more than your heart. It's your life. And we are not ours. If we put a penny in the jar every day for every day we've been apart, the jar would have been depleted a long time ago. The letters were roy's greatest gift to celestial and his greatest gift to me as his author. Because celestial can only know of roy's present experience. He protects her from the harsh details, therefore protecting me and also protecting
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