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For months, I’d lain awake next to him, as my nerves shrilled and my mind performed frantic, scuttling maneuvers. Now I felt calm. The realization that you’re out of options brings with it its own brand of peace. I would leave him, I decided. I would leave him, his parents’ money, and the shockproo…

IT TAKES TWO REVELATIONS TO LEAVE A PERSON YOU’VE ONCE loved. There is the moment you realize you no longer love him. And there is the moment you realize you can no longer pretend. The length of time between the two varies, depending on your capacity for deceit, your tolerance for fraud. [...]

Oil is one of the last avenues of blue-collar opportunity in this country, one of the few sectors open to working-class men—outside of sport—that still pay well. The oil workers I knew were always trying to redress this imbalance by spending their wages as soon as they got them. They bought powerfu…

It was a bit like mine (a guttural Liverpool k; some of the same distended vowels), but with a northeastern melisma that turned “module” into mod-joo-al, “sure” into shower.

It was a bit like mine (a guttural Liverpool k; some of the same distended vowels), but with a northeastern melisma that turned “module” into mod-joo-al, “sure” into shower.