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>> et tu? << Mina's Question

The general behaviors of some folks invite occasional examination, perhaps a prod short of a rebuff. To anyone else it would have been a subtle nudge, but to Marcus, Mina's question hit like a sandbag dropped from a tree. To one whose very core is built of interlocking beams of honesty, such innocent enquiries strike at being. They communicate, "We don't think you are you." You would never choose Macaluso to cover you socially if it required saying what isn't so. Why weren't you going to attend the wedding? "Your fiancee is an ass hole ... he's porking your bride's maid..." Totally honest but not socially constructive. Legal repercussions of a cancelled wedding? Yes. His defense to his totally confounded wife was, "Didn't we tell the kids to pee before we took a big trip?" All she could say was, "That's it? That's it? That's all you can say?" He just did a sheepish neck down sad eyed, "Mmm yeah, I guess. Did'em a favor. " There is a personal cost to honesty. It can be lonely. One loses privacy. Evasion, short of physical evasion is impossible. To any discriminating observer, I'd rather not answer, is as clear an answer as answers get. Evasion even adds an unwanted dimension of perceived guilt to perceived fact, warranted or not. Mina was sharing her day and laughing about the supposed indiscretions of certain women according to conversations at the ladies club yesterday, even though Marcus wasn't getting into it. His series of robotic yes dear's was consistent with his not liking gossip. Mina knew that. So why was she punishing him with that kind of idle clack? Well so and so was doing such and such behind this one or that one's back. Yap yap yap yap yap. Though he never cut off her feminine interests, he just usually suffered them