A Letter to Three Wives
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My tuxedo, for instance.
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The same tuxedo that for some strange reason
you want me to wear tonight.

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Well, what's so wrong about getting
dressed up once in a while?

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Nothing at all, unless it's obviously
an attempt at pretense.

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And just what is
so pretentious about tonight?

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Tonight we'll sit down
to one of Sadie's duck dinners.

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Present will be Porter and Lora Mae,
with whom we've had many such dinners...

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when you wore slacks
and I didn't bother to shave.

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But this time, also present will be two
advertising moguls who happen to employ you.

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Their presence means
a new uniform for Sadie...

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my children prisoners in their room...
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and all the pomp and hysteria
usually reserved for coronations.

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I call that pretense.
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All right. So I'm out
to impress the boss.

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What do I get for that, 30 years?
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Tonight's important to me.
I've planned and worked, shopped...

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taken the twins off Sadie's hands,
written my program...

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and I'll be up all night tonight
and it's worth it to me.

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And as far as
dressing's concerned...

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you can come in a cowboy suit
for all I care.

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Ohhh.
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And why do the chairs have to look
as if nobody ever sat down in them?

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Because they do! Oh.
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Aw, come on, Reet.
Let's cut it out.

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Look...
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you finish up down here and see
if you can't relax for a few minutes.

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- Are you all ready except for your dress?
- And combing out my hair.

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Good. I'll put the twins to bed...
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and call up the liquor store
to send over the scotch, all right?

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- George?
- Hmm?

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Please nojokes about radio. I'm afraid they
don't have much of a sense ofhumor about it.

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Oh, neither have I.
The time for joking about it has passed.

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Radio has become a very serious problem now,
like juvenile delinquency.

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That's what I mean.
Cracks like that.

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Oh, that wasn't a crack.
I meant it.


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