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An anniversary dance takes an unexpected turn when a wife asks her husband to speak to her as romantically as he did before their marriage. His attempt to invent a fresh line of courtship leads into a story about Venus, unfamiliar customs and a world whose inhabitants do not understand married life quite as humans do.
J. Anthony Ferlaine builds the short tale from an ordinary domestic exchange. The husband's improvisation becomes increasingly difficult to separate from the tensions of the conversation, and the science-fiction premise gives the couple's disagreement a different kind of uncertainty.
Originally published in Fantastic Universe in May 1956, the complete story moves toward a compact final reversal. The EPUB preserves the original text, the illustration credited to Ed Emshwiller and the source publication information. Its combination of marital comedy and an extraterrestrial possibility makes it a brief example of the playful domestic science fiction found in mid-century magazines.