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[Nelson] "...I get none of the things a man's supposed to get from a wife."

— John Updike Rabbit at Rest (1990)

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He makes a cross evasive face. "You know – don't play naïve. Reassurance. Affection. Make the guy think he's great even if he isn't."

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