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Two Things

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Etgar Keret
Oct 14, 2025
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On Yom Kippur my wife and I play a game she learned from someone at work. The way it goes is each person has to say two things about himself: one that everyone already knows, and another that no one in the room knew before.

My wife goes first. She says that she loves me and that she slept with another man. I ask her who, and she…

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