A Letter to Three Wives
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which is apparently equaled
only by that of Addie Ross.

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Let's try to keep Addie
out of this one.

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I am fed up with taste
and discrimination.

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- You're not making sense.
- I'm fed up with your nobility
and wisdom and superiority...

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- and your contempt for me
in everything I try to do.
- You're talking nonsense.

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- Everything I say is nonsense.
- It's all this work. You're overtired.
You do too much.

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What do you suggest I stop doing,
this moronic radio trash...

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- with which I pay most of your bills?
- Now calm down.

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And what do I go back to,
washing, scrubbing, ironing...

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and a life of taste
and discrimination?

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I'm fed up with Addie Ross!
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- What's it all about, really?
- "If music be the food of love... play on."

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"Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
the appetite may sicken, and so die.

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From Twelfth Night, by Mr. Shakespeare,
which Addie and I played in high school.

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I thought it was a very clever note.
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And there was more to it
than a childhood memory.

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Yes, there was,
but we won't go into that.

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We're going to get a few things
straightened out once and for all. Sit down.

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- Yes, professor.
- Sit down!

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Seven years ago I made the most perfect
marriage ever devised by man, heaven or radio.

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My wife was an independent,
understanding woman.

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We thought the same thing
about everything, from baseball to Brahms.

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In those seven years, I was never
contemptuous of you. I was proud.

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But when that drooling pap
began to change you...

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when your independence
turned to fear...

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when I watched you snivel and grovel around
those two walking commercials...

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I didn't like it,
and I don't like it.

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I don't want to be
married to Linda Gray...

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Brenda Brown
or even Myrtle Tippet.

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I want my own wife back.
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Why didn't George go fishing?
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Why the blue suit?

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