{"text":"My fiancé immediately began to look uncomfortable, but did not voice this discomfort except by a soft gurgling sound in the throat . . . The gurgling escalated, but my mother politely switched on the dishwasher, and soon we heard mostly the sound of machinery rather than that of a person's feelings surfacing.","author":"Alexandra Kleeman","tags":["alexandra-kleeman","commentary","feelings","intimations","metaphor","repression","satire","social-mores"],"id":57725,"author_id":"Alexandra+Kleeman"}