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Shaking The Hold
Ten years into their marriage Jason and Gaudia hit a metaphorical bump in the road, a momentary mistake. Misjudged madness. It coloured something between them, for how could it not. For a while they toyed with the idea of going their separate ways, but they had a mortgage to pay, mutual friends, and enough residue of love, they felt, to build things back again. Jason started wearing skinny jeans, though he no longer had the thighs for it, and it was hard to pull them up, but it was a nod to the start of their relationship. Whenever Gaudia told the story of how they met she always mentioned the skinny jeans. Jason felt his testicles crush when he walked, in a way they had not done fifteen years earlier; he felt this was no more than he deserved. Gaudia, for her part, s
