Any other vexations to report? he asks. I love the word 'vexations.' I…

Michael Cunningham
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Any other vexations to report? he asks. I love the word 'vexations.' It's the 'x.' Nice to jump off a 'v' and bite into an 'x' like that. Just the usual ones, she says. How was the weekend? Vexing. Not really, I just wanted to say it. You? ✨ Michael Cunningham (2010). By Nightfall: A Novel, p.72, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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