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"My husband doesn&amp;#039;t listen to me past a sentence&amp;#039;s verb. I can say, &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m going to the store,&amp;quot; but he only hears, &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m going.&amp;quot; I could say, &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m going to lop your head off with a ball-peen hammer,&amp;quot; and he would nod and wave good-bye.  One Saturday, I asked him to pick up our son at art class at 12:30. When my cell phone rang at 11:45, I knew it was him, and I knew why he was calling. &amp;quot;Am I supposed to pick up Nick at 12:00?&amp;quot; he asked.  I took this as a personal victory, because he had to hear me well past the verb, through the prepositional phrase and darn near all the way to the end of the sentence to get that much out of what I told him.  &amp;quot;Twelve-thirty,&amp;quot; I sighed, wondering if before cell phones, fathers just drove around town until their children appeared on the sidewalk looking for a ride home. Maybe next week, he&amp;#039;ll hear the end of the sentence and remember it. Or maybe I&amp;#039;ll turn off my cell phone. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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