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“I can’t take much more. Something’s got to change. I’m not quite sure what or how, but I got a feeling it’s going to be up to me to change it.”
Marge Sommers sat slumped on the edge of the large double bed, her dust rag knotted in her hand, and addressed herself to the phone on the nightstand next to her. It was the last place her husband’s voice had come from, and even though it was now silently cradled, it only seemed natural to keep talking to it.
“Things just can’t go on like this, Roger!”
This was an old thought. It happened every time she got one of these phone calls from her husband.
“I’m tired of waiting for you to change. I guess I’m the one that’s going to have to be different… So different, you’ll wake up and notice me again.”
This was a new thought. It was one approach she had not yet tried, and as she spoke it aloud, it awakened a flood of determination in her that would tolerate no reversal.
“I don’t know how I’m going to do it yet, but I’ll change into whatever it takes to save this relationship.”
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