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He Ate My Grapes, Flooded My Kitchen, and Left Me on My Hands and Knees

Does familiarity breed contempt?

Lisa S. Gerard

Published in

The Memoirist

5 min readSep 8, 2022

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I believe Geoffrey was onto something.

“Familiarity breeds contempt.”— Geoffrey Chaucer

There is truth in them thar words.

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