He announces that lately he keeps losing things. "Like your... - Suzanne Finnamore, Split: A Memoir of Divorce

"He announces that lately he keeps losing things. "Like your wife and child,"I want to say, but don´t. At fourty, I´ve learned not to say everything clever, not to score every point."

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