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where a weary and kind husband yells at his flaky writer wife, Libby, to accept her nice life in suburban New Jersey. Watching alongside my own husband, a proud son of the Garden state, I noticed him taking in the scene with an expression of the purest contentment. That man loves New Jersey. And lately I’ve had to admit that I like it, too.interviewed
New Jersey knows that city people think it’s a bit of a joke, and New Jersey says … whatever. You’re still welcome What did I know about New Jersey? Not a lot. I’d watched Jersey Shore on MTV in the early 2000s. I’d read the works of Philip Roth and Judy Blume. Early on in our relationship, I was surprised when my husband invited me to join his friends for a weekend at a Jersey shore beach house. Surprised because it turned out to be a pleasant seaside town with pristine rolling sand dunes, and also surprised because the weekend with friends turned out to be their multigenerational annual family vacation.
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