SHE HOLDS the beer bottle up to the light, as if checking the clarity for a drowned mouse. She waits for him to say something. He thinks: “I’m not saying anything, because whatever I say will be wrong.” Now, she’s giving him the drowned mouse eye. Did he just think that to himself? It’s possible he said it out loud, which would indeed be “wrong.” He’s not sure which is was. And now, he waits for her to say something.

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