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"Is it weird having a priest for an uncle?"

"Yes and no" Laila looked up at the darkening sky "I’e when I stop to think about it I’ll see so on television about the pope or Rome and I’ll think, ‘He’s one of them’"

"He’s not one of theirlfriend is the part that isn’t weird If he didn’t have her, then that would be strange What man would choose to be alone if he could have her?"

"No ht mind"

Laila tried to smile at him but Wes didn’tsoain

"I don’t bla in love with her I just wish, for her sake, she wasn’t in love with hiiving offense

"Don’t tell hi, "but I’ve thought the sa"

"You have?" Wes looked at her with new eyes and in shock "I thought--"

"I love him Completely He was a father to one But I love ine how hard it is for her"

"Hard?"

"In our house in Copenhagen, she’s his wife We treat her like faoes, she’s just"

"The lad he had The word felt like treason to her

"Yes, the mistress She told me she fell in love with him when she was fifteen years old and loved him every day since the day they met That’s almost twenty years now And not once has he been able to publicly say they’re together She’s his dirty secret She’s so he has to hide When I found out that she’d left hiry I was sad, but I understood why"

"I’o back to hiuy because I don’t want her in a relationship like that She deserves better"

"She does," Laila agreed "And he tried to give her more"

"What do you ether last tiot married I said I felt bad for her because she couldn’t be his wife I asked her if she washer"