The Frustration of Mr and Mrs Star
There once was a couple that wished to pursue something outside their marriage. Now that didn’t mean they were unhappy. Oh, no one shouldn’t think that of them. For they were two very happy people just that they both wished for something more.“Do you think life is getting boring dear,” she said to him?He sat in his chair looking into at face and slowly put down his magazine. Nothing mattered more to him than her and if he at all sensed that there was something wrong he would immediately concern himself with it.She listened for his response and realized that maybe he was getting old. Was he suffering from a disease or couldn’t remember his name? She could remember hers. It was Julie and his was . . . she wouldn’t say.They both sat there looking at each other for a while in silence and then there was a knock at the door. I wonder who that could be?“Come in,” she said.The person came in and stood in the doorway. She thought the next person to talk would be either her husband or this new arrival. Would that person be talking to her or here husband she wondered? She listened in the direction of the doorway closed her eyes, waited and knew that she knew her husband and she knew his name and that this person who every they were might say to her that he was her husband but he would not know his name. They were travellers and this was a very new place they had come to. No one would know them here.She would know, she knew his voice and as a blind woman could not easily be fooled or tricked so easily.“What is your name,” she said in the cold lonely room?
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