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Phrase – the life of all the people around her had tumbled down like a house of cards

I mean their secrets

At this point, the story feels like “perfect strangers “ in a good way

Phrase – “now don’t go making me out to be some kind of villain. Anyone can see that I am the real victim here.”
OH WELL…

Phrase – what threw him was the way that his brother-in-law seemed to consider it perfectly natural to discard his wife as though she were broken watch or household appliance.

I am shocked a little bit from the second story. So basically it’s her sister husband who fantasising about having sex with her. Wild.

Phrase – to my surprise, it was my mother-in-law.
“I am so ashamed to face you,” she began bubbling as soon as she came near me.

Phrase – there was no need to affect intellectual leanings in order to win her over, or to worry that she might be comparing me to the preening men who pose in fashion catalogues, and she didn’t get worked up if I happened to be late for one of our meetings. The punch that started appearing in my mid 20s, my skinny legs and forearms…