It was 1993. Bobby was a father now, with two children both under ten, a boy and a girl. He was recently divorced from Emily, he said. Would it have mattered if Mary knew that he was lying? That he and Emily were not, in fact, divorced? Would it have mattered if Mary knew Emily’s side? That Emily loved Bobby and had stuck with him through his heroin addiction, his overdose and arrest, the rehab stint in New Jersey, the serious health issues to follow, the five-months-long hospitalization? That in 1992, after ten years of marriage and two children, Emily and Bobby had separated over none of
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