It is a condition that many married Japanese know all too well.
The wedding bells fell silent years ago and the lovingly framed photo -- she in her gown, he in his tux -- has long since been put away in a drawer.
The couple has settled into a routine of comfortable domesticity. Real closeness, though, has become as distant a memory as the exact date they first held hands. Or what floor their honeymoon suite was on.
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