The dialog, more or less as it happened.<\/p>\n
“Honey, sometime this weekend …” [Sit down next to her.]<\/p>\n
“Yes, Dave?”<\/p>\n
“I’d like to … do something … thrilling. [Take her hand.] Moving. Something to fill the senses, engulf the mind … [Nuzzle her neck.] … something that I’ve been waiting for … for so long … [Kiss her] together, just the two of us, something wonderful, marvelous, thrilling …”<\/p>\n
“Yeeeessss?”<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
“I’d like to … watch The Two Towers<\/i>.”<\/p>\n
[She laughs.]<\/p>\n
“Oh, and then have sex.”<\/p>\n
[Snort.] “You expect me to still be awake after that? What’s the extended edition — three hours? Four?”<\/p>\n
I love my wife.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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