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Hayden and MadgeAuthor(s): James TateSource: The Iowa Review, Vol. 30, No. 3 (Winter, 2000/2001), p. 85Published by: University of IowaStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20154877 .
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Hayden and Madge
Hayden and Madge had both inherited
fortunes and consequently had never worked
a day in their Uves. They Uved in a huge Tudor mansion and employed servants for every
possible task. Hayden had a workshop and
called himself an inventor. Most days he
would putter around in there until five when
it was time for cocktails. Madge was constantly
redecorating rooms and bickering with the
workers. By day's end they were exhausted.
"You mustn't work so hard, darling," Hayden would say to her. Madge holding back tears
her hands shaking, "I distinctly told them
Aztec rouge for the drapes and they bring me
Aztec yellow, the idiots!" Hayden is thinking, we forgot to have children, how could that
be? We were always too busy. We never even
talked about it. No heirs. We've built our
own mausoleum. Come to think of it, it's
always felt Uke a kind of an afterlife with
Madge, though perhaps I am the deadest of
the two. She at least wants it to look
right.
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