J. E. Knowles

These were the things Edith knew: You got married and from then on, you were happy or unhappy, you moved or you didn't move, had kids or didn't, saw your family or didn't. You worked and saved or you struggled with money, had sex too often or not often enough. Everybody on the outside kept changing the rules. Edith remembered when sex had gone from a sin, which Christians were not even supposed to talk about, to a divinely ordered pleasure. God had evidently ordained this during the Ford administration, by which time everything else had gone to hell.