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A short time ago, after a short courtship our son was married.

“The time is short,” he said. “We’re thirty.”

So he married Dallas, a short girl. Actually, she’s not short at all. She’s a world-record holding power lifter. That’s right. She carried our son over the threshold. I, on the other hand, am not built for lifting large objects. In ninth grade I lay on my back, hoisting barbells straight up above my face, and somehow the whole contraption got away and fell on me. I’m the only person I’ve met that dropped barbells on his nose.

A short time after Dallas and Steve tied the knot, they infor...

 
 
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