Jackie wanted an annulment. Divorce was not enough. She wanted the Catholic Church to nullify this marriage, negate it, treat it as a great nothing just as her husband had done. “I’m never going back,” Jackie said. Jack’s self-preservation must have kicked in, because three days after the baby’s funeral, he was suddenly in her hospital room. Ten days had gone by. Any suspicions Jackie had about why he was there, why the change of heart and the great sacrifice of yet another bacchanal, were well founded. Her nemesis, the equally lecherous
