A relationship

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she was his own best critic she despised his poetry which pleased jim to no end if, on the other hand, we were only to take into account mae’s emotions for jim a brief grocery list might suffice: he happened to be available was modestly capable she was bored what’s more she always wanted to spend the summer on a boat let us just say they spent the majority of that summer in the hay jim couldn’t get enough of mae what’s more it astonished him that he’d discovered someone so beautiful so lighthearted so blue-blooded and ready and steady and levelheaded she on the other hand could barely stomach jim he was a drunkard for chrissakes!

From Joseph G. Peterson’s Inside the Whale: A Novel in Verse