Machine generated contents note: We Gave Ourselves the Summer to Find the Spark. 1019 Myrtle Furrow Lane -- The Ever After Bridal Store -- My Fiance's First Wife Sews Lingerie For My Wedding Night -- The Rented Altar -- Vow In Which We Tie Our Hands Behind Our Backs -- The Game of Make-Believe -- White Picket Fence and Black Coffee -- HONEYMOON -- Honeymoon Island -- The Same Scrawled Question -- Where My Mind Went During the First Ultrasound -- The Bar of Dove Soap His First Wife Left Behind -- My Husband Presses My Cheek Against the Bedroom Wall's Wet Paint -- First Anniversary -- A More Subtle Ache -- Ritual -- I Have Been Everything In the Fairy Tale Except the King and the Prince -- LABOR -- Family Portrait with My Stepson's Heel Against My Stomach -- Labor Day Weekend at Captiva Island -- Family Portrait at the Neighborhood Pool -- The Flowers Between Our Houses Won't Stop Swelling -- In My Paper Gown I Press My Mouth Against the Window -- A Stepmother Wonders at a Boy Not Made of Ivory -- The Playground Where I Take the Boy When I Can't Sleep -- Red Geraniums -- Why Should I Plant That When I Know It Won't Last? -- Things I Have Said to the Red Roses His First Wife Planted -- What I Want Them to Say About Me the Next Time I Lose a Baby -- The Bedroom is a Labyrinth I Am Lost Inside -- The Master Bathroom Renovation -- SPLINTER -- Things I Have Said to My Husband -- or -- The Grief of a Wooden Fence In a Field -- A Husband Eavesdrops As His Wife Confides In a Box of Matches -- When Strangers Ask, "Don't You Want Any Real Children?" -- In My Wedding Heels, I Buy Frozen Blackberries For a Pie -- My Husband Burns My Clothes In the Driveway -- Contemplating an Affair -- Double-Blind -- A Husband Dares His Wife to Have an Affair -- My Husband Brings Home a Terrarium -- My Husband's Sleep -- We Gave Ourselves the Summer to Find the Spark.
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