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Book 29 Page 44

 

A marriage not worth it’s salt

 

“Pass me the salt” said the wife to the husband.

And these were the only amicable words they ever spoke to each other.

They were bitter with each other and never spoke a kind word.

 

Theirs was a marriage of ‘convenience.’

There was no pepper left in this marriage.

And you could say that it was a marriage “not even worth its own salt.”

 

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