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The Holy Underwear

The other night I was getting ready for bed when my husband Kurt walked by in underwear…

Lisa Alex Gray
4 min readJul 30, 2019
Illustration by Lisa Alex Gray

The other night I was getting ready for bed, when my husband Kurt walked by in underwear, with a small hole in the seam.

The sight of the hole made me laugh due to the memory it conjured up.

It was a memory of an incident that happened about 16 years ago when our son Evan was eight years old.

That night, Kurt walked through the bedroom, in a similar fashion, except for one difference — his underwear looked more like Swiss cheese.

I remember standing there speechless as I watched him cross the room shocked that after so many years together he was still able to surprise me.

I mean, this was a person so picky he felt uncomfortable using a public restroom. Yet, he was wearing underwear that I wouldn’t use to clean a public restroom.

Still, I was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt.

After all, it was possible he had no idea his underwear was full of holes — maybe he got dressed in the dark. Although, I don’t know how he would have figured out which holes to put his feet through.

Regardless, I just smiled lovingly at the man I had committed my life to and…

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Lisa Alex Gray
Lisa Alex Gray

Written by Lisa Alex Gray

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