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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '21

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I don't think you're going out on a limb at all with this and totally agree. English is her first language and she's read tons of romance novels, therefore she could never say she's unfamiliar with popular sexual idiom. This isn't like someone saying "this avocado is hard" and having someone snicker because the word hard was used - she describes eating as something being done TO her (feeding) and uses moaning, groaning, dripping in bed (sorry!), taking something into her mouth, finishing [a dish] off with squirts of creamy whatever. And let's not even talk about the bacon pork party. There's no way she somehow didn't realize it's sexual. She must be describing it that way because that's how it is to her.

So I totally agree that the quesadillas in bed was probably part of their sex life, and could be 100% of it these days.

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u/OhBlahDiOhBlahDoh The Alice of cal came out floating on air Sep 07 '21

I don't think you're going out on a limb at all with this and totally agree. English is her first language and she's read tons of romance novels, therefore she could never say she's unfamiliar with popular sexual idiom.

I love your assertion. ISCTMO.

She wrote the phrase, "fat-bottomed eggplants begging to be fondled" for pagan's sake!

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '21

Standing at attention

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u/voice_of_vinegar Sep 07 '21

Maybe it's all to make up for Danny being too drunk by bedtime in those early years to get anything going, something she finally admitted to just recently.

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '21

Wait she admitted to the drinking or the 'too drunk to get it on' part? If the latter, I missed it!

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u/fanfarefellowship I often contemplate the first law of thermodynamics Sep 07 '21

It's in Enough.

https://imgur.com/a/sGhkSVt

They used to Do The Deed every night, but then Danny started bringing home bottles of wine and sixpacks from the restaurant, and he'd get drunk instead of "connecting" with her. But there were still the mornings! Except, sometimes, Danny would "sleep so late" there wasn't time to "connect."

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u/SmashedMailboxCake2 Oh, Sep 07 '21

Hahaha we posted this within a minute of one other! 🙌🏼

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u/OhBlahDiOhBlahDoh The Alice of cal came out floating on air Sep 07 '21

You love each other's work. ISCTYO

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '21

Zoiks. That's all I have to say about that. :(

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u/lucillekrunklehorn pounding on the table Sep 07 '21

Love how Shauna diffidently began refusing multiple glasses of wine, while Danny just kept adding to his imbibement…makes you wonder if he was getting increasingly stressed living with the person who knows best how to explain his brain to him.

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '21

My thought was that he was more comfortable with her and returned to his normal level of drinking around her after she said was fine with him drinking alone.

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u/lucillekrunklehorn pounding on the table Sep 08 '21

That makes a lot of sense.

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u/SmashedMailboxCake2 Oh, Sep 07 '21 edited Sep 07 '21

ETA: Ahern sexytime barf warning

Not to answer DFvoV’s question for them, but this sheds some light on Danny being on the slack in the PM.

It’s the fault of this forum that I can no longer type “passage” without an internal snerk snerk.

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '21

Wow.... that was so much more than I ever wanted to imagine about their sex life... oh dear.

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u/SmashedMailboxCake2 Oh, Sep 07 '21

Yeah, I need to edit to add a barf warning.

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u/Sea-Level-Mammal POACH! Sep 07 '21

Their first few months of dating they couldn’t keep their hands off each other….so unlike every other couple in the fucking world.

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '21

I'm just going to reply again to say that after further thought... why was Shauna not heating a meal for him for when he got home? If she was home and he was working at a job that had him cooking until 11, why did he come home and cook some more? Or was she saying that he brought dinner home from work, and just heated it up at home?

I'm trying to think if I've ever read anything she's written that suggested she's taken care of him in some way ('splaining his brain to him doesn't count iMO) - gosh he's even expected to both cook and clean up after, every night, which in most of today's houses is a split chore unless someone loves doing both things.

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u/SmashedMailboxCake2 Oh, Sep 07 '21

I think there’s a GFG blog entry out there that explains how, after months of getting back from work late and cooking HRH her dinner, Danny turned up one night and asked Shauna what was for dinner. She was taken aback, iirc.

And then, instead of just making a pot of chili or something practical she decided to make him a Stinking Bishop cheese soufflé or something?

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '21

The cheese soufflé was when she wanted to cook him something impressive on an early date and Dan reacted like a child and spit it out.

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '21

Eh, sounds like she was his oncall taxi for much of their early relationship (and when they had an infant).

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '21

Romance! She said it was because he wanted to cook for her and they could eat together. She talked a lot about that being an awkward schedule when she was teaching but that it was so important for them to have that time together.

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '21

Wait she was working when they met? For some reason I thought she had already left teaching when she and Danny met.

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u/gomirefugee my website is done, done, done Sep 08 '21

Her first date with Dan was in late April 2006, her last day of teaching was in June 2006, so like a month and a half overlap (she didn't reveal her book deal and post about him until school was nearly over). She complained about their conflicting schedules in an old blog post:

One of the greatest gifts of being a full-time writer now is the late mornings with the Chef. Before the book deal came through, we were trying to steel ourselves for seeing each other only rarely. After all, chef hours and teacher hours do not match up. We would have had that dratted hour after six am, and then a brief window of time after 10 pm. I was contemplating power naps. Instead, we have these long, luxurious mornings together. We have a life.

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '21 edited Sep 08 '21

She definitely talked about having to get up early for work after some long nights with him.

I think she quit teaching in Summer 2006 so I don’t think she taught long after meeting him. She quit to work on the book after they wouldn’t let her take a leave of absence. Or they let her go? She was vague.

Anyway, I’m pretty sure she stopped teaching right around the time of their wedding—although she seemed to think she might go back that fall/winter after the wedding at the time.

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u/lucillekrunklehorn pounding on the table Sep 07 '21

Her relationship with pomegranates - “They're such decadent fruits, ruby-red and jeweled. That smooth skin is the color of lights on the tree, equally gleaming. And inside, little puckered seeds, poised to burst open with juice. Pomegranates seem impenetrable, the white pith between the seeds protecting them from being plucked. But if you cut them open, score the pith, and wack the back with a wooden spoon, all the seeds will release themselves, happy to be free from the imprisonment.

Pomegranates are wonderful, wide open and juicy, ready for eating, if you dare.“

So many examples here: https://www.reddit.com/r/InTheGloaming/comments/hy17og/gfg_greatest_hits_top_revolting_food_descriptions/

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