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The June dawn was already hot and stuffy. I was tossing in bed trying to find a cool spot. The air conditioner was letting me down. Rolling from right to left, I made an effort to get comfortable but was unsuccessful. I turned to my right. Somehow I breathed easier that way. Dimly, I heard the buzzing of the alarm.
“Rise and shine, Wade,” my wife was calling from the head of the stairs.
“Now you know why I sleep alone!” I retorted.
“Sure, you do. But you still screwed me twice last night. Twice, Mister Excell, and at your age yet.”
“Well, madam, thirty-eight isn’t exactly over the hill, especially with my wife, one of the best I’ve ever had.”
Nell laughed. “And just how many have you had?”
“No prying, madam.”
“You don’t like company.”
“I do, and I get plenty of it at the confounded office,” I growled.
“And get paid for it.” Her voice rose. “You’re a lone wolf, Wade. You hate everybody.”
“Not quite, only the ones I know, and some of them are wolves, too.”
“Like your Oklahoma ancestors, howling over the prairies.”
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