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    Table Talk

    April 25, 2022 / No Comments

    Michelle: For months, I had been telling Chris that the wobbly table needed to be fixed.  Each evening, I would come home to find it still wobbled. How could this be?  My husband is a carpenter.  In my mind, I began to create a story.  Chris wants to see how many times I’m going to bring it up.  He is just trying to make me mad.  Maybe, he doesn’t want to fix the table.  I could go on and on with the stories I had…because remember, the table was wobbly for MONTHS.  Finally, I made a decision.  I was not going to bring the table up again, I just stopped commenting on the table.  One morning, we sat down for…

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