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“Right” Then thinking about it: “But ”
“What’s that supposed to mean?”
“I don’t know”
“Did you get physical? Second base? Third base?”
“What? No”
“You didn’t kiss her?”
“No”
“So why the guilt?”
“Because I wanted to”
“Hell, I want to give Hugh Jacke bath So what? You can’t help what you want You’re huo”
He said nothing
“So then your wife confronted Sally Perryman”
“She called her I don’t know if she confronted her”
“And Corinne never told you?”
“Right”
“She asked Sally as going on, but she never did you that courtesy That about right?”
“I guess”
“So then what?”
“Then, well, then Corinne got pregnant,” Adam said
“You nant”
“Right, whatever”
Johanna just shook her head and said, “Wow,” again
“It’s not what you think”
“No, it’s exactly what I think”
“The pregnancy startled ht me back It reminded me of as important That’s the other irony here It worked Corinne was right to do it”
“No, Adaht”
“It brought me back to reality”
“No, it didn’t She otten back to reality anyway And if you didn’t, then maybe you weren’t meant to Sorry, but what Corinne did was bad Really bad”
“I think maybe she felt desperate”
“That’s not an excuse”
“This is her world Her faht so hard to build it, and it was being threatened”
Johanna shook her head “You didn’t do what she did, Adam You know that”
“I’uilty too”
“It isn’t about guilt You had a doubt You had your head turned You wondered about the what-if You’re not the first person to feel these things You either find your way through it or you don’t But in the end, Corinne didn’t give you that chance She chose to trick you and live a lie I’e is its own story But you didn’t see the light You had soht in your eyes”
“Maybe I needed that”
Johanna shook her head again “Not like this It rong You have to see that”
He thought about it “I love Corinne I don’t think the fake pregnancy really changed anything”