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Talking it Over, 1992 - Julian Barnes

Christophe Gagne

At the weekends [2] she used to [3] have a lie-in. I'd be [4] the first to get up. We always had a grapefruit, or at least, one of the mornings we did, either Saturday or Sunday. I'd be the one to decide. If I went down and felt like a grapefruit on Saturday, I'd take it out of the fridge, cut it in half and put each in a bowl [5] . Otherwise we'd have it on the Sunday. Now, when I'd eaten my half, I'd look at Gillian's sitting in its bowl. I'd think, that's hers, she's going to eat that when she wakes up [6] . And I'd carefully take out all the pips from her half, so she wouldn't have to do it herself.

Do you know, in all the time we were together, she never noticed this. Or if she did notice, she never mentioned [7] it. I used to think, perhaps she believes some new strain of seedless grapefruit has been invented. How does she think grapefruit reproduce?

Maybe [8] she's discovered the existence of pips by now.