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Wants

I saw my ex-husband in the street. I was sitting on the steps of the new library.

Hello, my life, I said. We had once been married for 27 years, so I felt justified.

He said, What? What life? No life of mine.

I said, OK. I don’t argue when there’s real disagreement. I got up and went into the library to see how much I owed them.

The librarian said $32 even and you’ve owed it for 18 years. I didn’t

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