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She Ain’t Never Had a Friend Like He

№ 38 of 💯 — What will your pleasure be?

Bob Merckel
3 min readApr 18, 2022

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Photo by Clement Percheron

Six years ago, Angie spent an entire weekend in the bath.

It began as a quick getaway from the kids. “Mommy’s gonna take a little bath,” she said, “you guys watch Barney.” It pained her, but that purple antichrist was a godsend.

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Bob Merckel

Editor: Age of Empathy, The Memoirist | English teacher/language consultant in Barcelona and Provincetown.