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Through the years he had learned to rein his body in, to allow himself to only let go in solitude; farting and pissing in the shower, burping alone in the car, not washing or brushing his teeth all weekend when she was away at conferences.
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I already hate this writing style. Seriously. "Through the years he had learned to rein his body in, to allow himself to only let go in solitude; farting and pissing in the shower, burping alone in the car, not washing or brushing his teeth all weekend when she was away at conferences. It was not that his wife was a prude, she just didn't seem to tolerate the smells and expressions of a male body".
Ugh Ugh Ugh. Seriously who writes this. A paragragh because a wife doesn't like smelling a fart in bed, or unbrushed teeth... oh the poor man with his manly man smells that his non-prudish wife can't tolerate.
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