Still looking at him, she held out a hand. Jake put a mug of coffee into it.
“I heard you were out of town.”
“I got back yesterday. I came by the site, but you were busy.”
“Oh. Well. You put cheese in those eggs?” she asked Jake, and was already opening the
refrigerator to dig some out.
“Not everybody likes cheese in their eggs.”
“Everybody should like cheese in their eggs.”
She passed him the cheese, skirted around him to open a loaf of bread.
“Put some in my share, and if it gets in someone else’s that’s too bad.”
Doug watched Jake hold out a hand for the knife she’d taken out of a drawer, watched her
pop bread into the toaster, then take the plate he handed her.
It was like a little dance, he decided, with each knowing the steps and rhythm the other
would take even before they were taken.
Birthright
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"Another sunset together" by Leo Hidalgo from España - Another sunset together.
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Science says these 5 things happen to couples who have been together a long time
Being with someone for a long time changes the way you see the world. It also changes you. Everything from how you act to the way you think shifts in ever-so-slight ways.
And according to Joshua Wolf Shenk, the author of "Powers of Two," these tiny shifts are also the catalyst for a different kind of thought process — a shared mind, so to speak — that allows couples (romantic or not) to come up with more creative solutions to problems than they'd ever think up on their own.
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“I’ve been making this pie for too many years to count. It’s Loren’s favorite.”
“You smile when you say his name.”
“Do I? We’ve been married—I count from the handfasting—for thirty-six years. He still makes me happy.”
That, Abigail thought when she was alone again, was the most vital and compelling statement on a relationship.
The Witness