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The Empty Jar That Ended My Marriage

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There is a particular jar of strawberry preserves I have bought for nine years. It is a small-batch organic brand from a farm two states over, sold in a squat glass jar with a handwritten-looking label, and it costs more than I will ever admit to a stranger. Daniel mocked it relentlessly. He hated jam, all of it, the way some people hate the smell of licorice. He would not touch the stuff if you paid him. That jar was mine alone, a tiny indulgence in a house we had stopped sharing in most of the ways that count.

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