From "White Bowls in White Cupboards"

She’d been working in the drug store in the lobby of a hotel where he had a sales conference.When you married a person, you inherited a dowry of their good and bad habits, of mistakes and acquaintances and well-worn behaviors that required courage, and patience, and a bit of compromise. Theo, for example, had a thing for the color purple, but he didn’t look good in it because he had blond hair. He had oddly formed kneecaps, and a noisome habit of cracking his knuckles during television commercials. But he was kind, and predictable- he liked malted milkshakes and he still looked forward to the weekends as if something different might happen. When it didn’t, this made him feel content instead of anxious, and he seemed pretty comfortable with the snapshot forecast of his future life. 2006, 2007- the cozy years unfolding in the canopy of a fixed mortgage. 6.3. With points.