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    Prime Difference

    By Alan E. Nourse

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    Being two men rolled out of one would solve my problems—but which one would I be?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStart Publishing LLC
    Release dateApr 26, 2016
    ISBN9781682997758
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      Prime Difference - Alan E. Nourse

      Prime Difference

      By Alan E. Nourse

      Start Publishing LLC

      Copyright © 2015 by Start Publishing LLC

      All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever.

      First Start Publishing eBook edition July 2015

      Start Publishing is a registered trademark of Start Publishing LLC

      Manufactured in the United States of America

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      ISBN 13: 978-1-68299-775-8

      Being two men rolled out of one would solve my problems—but which one would I be?

      I suppose that every guy reaches a point once in his lifetime when he gets one hundred and forty per cent fed up with his wife.

      Understand now—I’ve got nothing against marriage or any thing like that. Marriage is great. It’s a good old red-blooded American Institution. Except that it’s got one defect in it big enough to throw a cat through, especially when you happen to be married to a woman like Marge—

      It’s so permanent.

      Oh, I’d have divorced Marge in a minute if we’d been living in the Blissful ‘Fifties—but with the Family Solidarity Amendment of 1968, and all the divorce taxes we have these days since the women got their teeth into politics, to say nothing of the Aggrieved Spouse Compensation Act, I’d have been a pauper for the rest of my life if I’d tried it. That’s aside from the social repercussions involved.

      You can’t really

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