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  • Plus, I got my better-half pregnant immediately and as long as I remember how old my kid is I known our wedding anniversary year.

    Stuff My Wife Says That Disturbs Me Tyler 2009

  • My beloved better-half ordered the electronic book Kindle too late to be placed under the tree.

    Archive 2008-12-01 ____Maggie 2008

  • My beloved better-half ordered the electronic book Kindle too late to be placed under the tree.

    Robert Sabuda (copy) ____Maggie 2008

  • By the way, these best gifts that you could give your better-half might interest you too.

    My Submission To "Real Man" 2009

  • I have a punch I picked up from an old antique store, while gaining much needed future points from my better-half to be in next years woods, from the tools of the yester-year box that every flea-market or antique store has.

    A Sticky Question 2007

  • So, when Camusot, his mind at ease, was sitting down to dinner with his ambitious better-half, the Governor of the Conciergerie and Monsieur Lebrun, the prison doctor, were standing outside the gate bewailing the fragility of iron bars and the strength of ladies in love.

    Scenes from a Courtesan's Life 2007

  • Speaking of cute, here's a blurred but beautiful blow-up of my better-half and baby:

    ocean to ocean 2005

  • Speaking of cute, here's a blurred but beautiful blow-up of my better-half and baby:

    pagan solstice gods salute you and you and you! 2005

  • No less perfectly did it suit his saturnine better-half: the incident was quite in her way, and to her taste.

    Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

  • Roger, turning hastily round to his better-half; and his better-half, knowing that the province of a woman is to obey, did cut it.

    Doctor Thorne 2004

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