Posted on 09/10/2013 11:01:26 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Cf. The Wife in Washington Irving's The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., which famously contains The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle.
The Wife is very short, but would be judged hopelessly sentimental these days, and in other days too, I think. It is told matter of factly, but it presents a situation which might seem beyond belief to the cynical. Yet perhaps there is heaven on earth.
You are reassured that you are the light of his life. and threaten to show him the tape if he forgets.
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