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Book 17 Page 30
The silent treatment
When she breaks her silence,
she usually refers to me by all manner of profanities.
And you would think I would protest,
but actually I welcome it.
For it is the ‘silence’ that I hate most.
Sometimes silence is anything but ‘golden.’
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