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"She would always sleep with her husband and with another man in the course of the same day, and then the rest of the day, for whatever was left to her of that day, she would exploit by incanting, 'French film, French film.'"

-- "Housewife", by Amy Hempel

Pictures: Rococo Vintage Blog, and Kalle Gustafsson
More Fiction by Amy Hempel: here and here