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maybe marriage isn’t what he had expected

[...] While we drink coffee, I look at my brother. He doesn’t seem happy, and maybe marriage isn’t what he had expected. Maybe he had imagined a wife that he could talk to about something other than love and the evening meal. Maybe he had imagined that they could do something else in the evening ot…

—p.198 The Copenhagen Trilogy Youth (101) by Tove Ditlevsen
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suddenly I see that he is aged and tired

[...] My mother goes out to make coffee, and I look at my sleeping father’s back. Suddenly I see that he is aged and tired. There’s nothing definite to point to, it’s just an impression that I get. My father is fifty-five years old, and I’ve never known him as young. My mother was first young, and …

—p.156 Youth (101) by Tove Ditlevsen
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