Summary
Two inseparable couples—Lee and Ena, Fred and Blanche—share breath, bedspreads, and breakfast bills inside a single clapboard womb until a hiss of lace-curtain gossip sunders their Eden. Walls sprout overnight like concrete hedgerows; the Ford is halved with a hacksaw, each flank left to rust in opposing driveways. Husbands, bruised by bourbon and bruised pride, crawl home to find the wives entwined in a rapturous reconciliation that scorches the very air—so the men slink off to Reno, clutching annulment papers like passports out of absurdity.
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Lee and Fred are the best of pals. Their wives are the best of comrades. The two families live in the same rooms, the same house, and share fifty-fifty on all the furniture. One day they have a quarrel, at least the wives do, and the two families split. One-half of the house belongs to one family, and one to the other. This continues for some time, even going as far as cutting the Ford in half. One fine day after the two husbands get all smashed up they go to their homes, and they find their wives embracing each other. This is too much, and they leave for Reno.
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