The Tragedy of Melissa and Doug

Melissa and Doug sat across from each other. In the same chairs they had sat for many years. Many decades even. A whole lifetime they had spent, sat across from one another. Any measure of love either had for the other had dissipated long ago.

Still, they sat like stoic, lonely guards left to defend the stronghold after all the other troops had gone forth to the battle.

Waiting to die.

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