"Beside You on Main Street"

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We were stepping out of a reading in October, the first cold night, and we were following this couple, were they at the reading? and because we were lost, I called out to them, “Are you going to the after party?” The woman laughed and said no and the man kept walking, and she was holding his hand like I hold yours, though not exactly, she did not need him for balance. Then what got into me? I said, “How long have you been married?” and she said “Almost 30 years” and because we were walking in public, no secret, tell everyone now it’s official, I said, “How’s marriage?” The man kept walking. The woman said, “It gets better but then it gets different.” The man kept walking. 

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