"He gestured toward the mountains. 'But look at us. Earth as far as the eye can see. I love global warming! And I love you!' Something about the implied comparison made me nervous. I was pretty bad as wives go. Where Stephen was concerned possibly epoch-rending, world-destroying bad. But without me he�d be under an ice sheet, so maybe I was doing him a favor. It was plausible. It was also not enough. I said I wasn�t ready. But I had sex with him, feeling like a very dutiful wife."
From Nell Zink's novel "The Wallcreeper."
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