It was one of those ridiculous arrangements that couples make when the…

John Irving
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It was one of those ridiculous arrangements that couples make when they are separating, but before they are divorced - when they still imagine that children and property can be shared with more magnanimity than recrimination. ✨ A Widow for One Year. Book by John Irving, May 5, 1998.
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It was one of those ridiculous arrangements that couples make when they are separating, but before they are divorced - when they still imagine that children and property can be shared with more magnanimity than recrimination. ✨ A Widow for One Year. Book by John Irving, May 5, 1998.

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