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Sleepwalking Through Marriage

When Melanie Gideon’s husband gave her a to-do list suggesting space travel, she feared he was having a midlife crisis. In The Slippery Year, she recalls rediscovering happily ever after.

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Melanie Gideon
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A while ago my husband emailed me his to-do list. This wasn’t an out of the ordinary occurrence. He had been emailing me his to-do lists for years.

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Melanie Gideon

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