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 JealouSy Even after it had been over for years and we’d both returnedsomehow to the same small townIthaca, it had to be and you were living with someone else and I was just visiting, keeping company with a friend of yoursanother architect one night he and I both ended up sleeping on your living room floor, which you had offered us, and it struck me as only a bit awkward for this was a time of floating for me and I was grateful for any place to stay. When you walked out in the morning and saw that we’d not only slept side-by-side but slept together, your tear-stained fury stunned me as it must have stunned your girlfriend (she never came out of the bedroom) and you threw us both out (your friend and me) hurling names and clothes and then it came back why I’d left you years beforethat raging possessiveness I could never stand the way, unasked, you used to rearrange my living room furniture. And this all happened twenty years ago, before I heard you had moved to Kentucky and I moved back to New York and I haven’t seen you since. ...

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