Micky is out of town. <\/p>\n
The house is too quiet. The bed is too big. There’s no one to make laugh once the babies sleep, and when they sun rises the wrong person is cuddling their morning awake. Even the Chinese food leaves a longing for more. <\/p>\n
There’s just too much space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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