The trooper’s warning detonated my marriage in seven blunt words, but that night, lying beside Sarah in her mother’s guest room, I still clung to the idea that there had to be some reasonable explanation. People don’t just invent entire lives, I told myself. Not for ten years. Not with shared mortgages and inside jokes and the weight of a wedding band pressing a permanent circle into their ski… Continues…
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