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What is all this? So after my mother died? Someone before Joy? I pull out the letter

Joy,

You don’t know ht you’d want to see this, woman to woman Photos from our vacation last suo nu at the clinic, last sueles for a ly dark tanthat he said he’d gotten after lying out by the hotel pool every afternoon

"Oh, shit," I whisper toan affair

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It’s all I can think about That evening, after Mo Grand inside the Melita Hills Observatory’s dark auditoriu Sometimes we head up to the roof with our telescopes, but thisAnd thanks to that Baha zero attention to Dr Viramontes, the retired Berkeley teacher who’s president of our local chapter He’s addressing the group--a couple dozen people, e--while standing at a podiuht show of the night sky I lost what he was saying a quarter of an hour back, so the Perseid meteor shower

Instead,that woman

He lied tomy mom that the Mackenzies hadn’t received any of our -boht nohen she’s full of cheer and sunshine, encouraging an Maybe not ever I don’t know This will tear our fa forced to decide where I should hide photos of ? What did that woman mean by "one of many"? The photos are from last summer, and I doubt this woman would want to call hi him So when did the affair end, and how many others were there? Are there?

Does he just pick up random acupuncturists from alternative health conventions?

Are they all locals?

Do I know any of the all the possibilities hurtsis that the strange woman in the photos looks a lot like er is younger than my mother hen she died, but there’s an uncanny rese an affair with someone who looks like his dead first wife That’s not nor? None of this nor this , completely oblivious to the fact that Dad’s cheated on her, and it ain

Thank God the normal clinic receptionist came in to take over formy dad in the eye