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🗓️ 15 February 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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0:00.0 | Matrimony on the rocks with a side of funny. |
0:07.0 | Quiet for God's sake. You're yelling like a prize fight manager. |
0:17.0 | Enraged at that, she had recourse to her eyes as weapons and looked steadily at him for a while with the |
0:27.1 | expression of one who was viewing a small and horrible animal such as a horn toad. |
0:39.8 | Coming up on selected shorts, humorous stories about marriages not made in heaven as a long married |
0:45.8 | couple fall out over Donald Duck and a spouse's bone jarring snores. |
0:51.8 | I'm Meg Walitzer and you have to hear this. And a talk with one of the authors, |
0:56.5 | The Sublime Louise Erdrich. You're listening to selected shorts where our greatest actors |
1:13.0 | transport us through the magic of fiction, |
1:15.6 | one short story at a time. |
1:18.5 | Marriage has taken on many forms in recent years, |
1:21.5 | but whatever the shape or context, it remains one of the most important |
1:25.8 | forms of bonding we have. |
1:28.0 | It makes two people into a family, and often one that includes a circle of friends and the preceding and perhaps succeeding generation. |
1:35.6 | More is at stake than just the two people who've linked together. |
1:39.2 | So what happens when that bond is tested? |
1:42.4 | On this show, we share two stories... So what happens when that bond is tested? |
1:43.0 | On this show, we share two stories in which marriages are in jeopardy, and they defy our expectations. |
1:50.2 | We often think of divorce as being either cataclysmic, the discovery of an affair, |
1:55.0 | or the slow acid of disenchantment. But these stories tip the balance in favor of the little things. |
2:05.6 | In one, a long established couple disagree |
2:10.7 | loudly in the other two different wives shape the life of one man. |
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