Mere episodes … dull argument followed by tears,
Recrimination, futile regret, little rage;
The petty irritations of the years
Had barbed their love like thistles that with age
Grow perilously light inside …
Mere down that weak winds of contention might blow wide.
(Edith Mirick)
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