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overheard even a single word, we’d figure everything out in lickety-split. The meeting rarely lasted more than a couple of hours, during which there were never any of the intimacies more common to other couples, not even the slightest physical contact. In any case they sat opposite, never next to, each other after all. The entire thing was somewhat reminiscent of a ten-nis match, a match they had arranged to play for days now, on a trial basis though, to see if they were both on the same level, and which they were now playing, exchanging the ball with each other as comfortably as possible without keeping score, and without the stress and the competitiveness that entailed. Hence why the conversation was always civilized and cour-teous with neither party ever so much as raising their voice. Observing them, one would say that basically they were discovering (or re-discovering?) each oth-er. And, while you normally look in the direction of the person you’re speaking to but not really staring at them, otherwise you’d make them feel slightly ner-vous, they kept looking and staring at each other the entire time, regardless of who was speaking or listen-ing. The awkward moments of silence were combat-ed immediately - it seems the ever-changing duet had not developed the necessary familiarity to keep them from happening, or, if they had, not to be bothered by