Dispatches from a Porch Swing

Dispatches from a Porch Swing

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“We snore and talk in our sleep and get too hot and get too cold.”

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Jen Deaderick
Apr 01, 2023
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My boyfriend and I don’t make a likely couple on the surface. We appear to be really different to people looking in at us. It’s true that we sometimes have big fights and spend days thinking we shouldn’t be together. Then we come back together. He’s always there at the other side, and I try to be, too, because he is.

“We’re committed,” I told a friend w…

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