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The Great Escape

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Roiphe, K. (2012). The Great Escape. In Roiphe, K. In Praise of Messy Lives: Essays. The Dial Press, pp. 5-8

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[...] I have notice the couples most interested in the grand tour of my tragedy are often in couples therapy. They are often in that phase where they hire a babysitter once a week so that they can sit across from each other at a restaurant and distract themselves from the vast distance, the dullness, that has risen up between them with the bustle of menus and waiters. [...]

the rest of the essay is kinda unnecessarily polemic but this line was great (though maybe the language use could have been spiced up a bit)

—p.9 by Katie Roiphe 6 years, 7 months ago

[...] I have notice the couples most interested in the grand tour of my tragedy are often in couples therapy. They are often in that phase where they hire a babysitter once a week so that they can sit across from each other at a restaurant and distract themselves from the vast distance, the dullness, that has risen up between them with the bustle of menus and waiters. [...]

the rest of the essay is kinda unnecessarily polemic but this line was great (though maybe the language use could have been spiced up a bit)

—p.9 by Katie Roiphe 6 years, 7 months ago