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Marriage and Television
Posted on March 9th, 2008 at 2:04 amFROM THE NEWSSTANDS: A STORY BY MARIANNE VILLANUEVA FROM JUKED #5
The Hand
Marianne Villanueva
She had been married quite a long time, almost 18 years, to a man who, in the last year or two, had begun to spend most of his time watching TV. When they were first married, when they were both in graduate school, they had started out with a small black-and-white. Eventually, after perhaps the 6th year of their marriage, her husband had agreed to buy a small colored TV. Finally, just two years ago, they had gotten another TV so that she could watch her favorite shows without having to wait for her husband to finish watching a football game.
In the last couple of years, time seemed to be moving very fast, seemed almost to be accelerating, and the more she tried to hold on to it, the less of it there was to hold….