“I clench my jaw when my mother-in-law talks. I have done this for nine years. I have a guard now. I do not have a different mother-in-law.”
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“I clench my jaw when my mother-in-law talks. I have done this for nine years. I have a guard now. I do not have a different mother-in-law.”