The Wake-Up Call

by Beth O'Leary

There are magazines here from a time when all the UK had to worry about was whether a man named Jeremy Clarkson had or had not punched someone.

We are all misled and misdirected from time to time. Perhaps there really is no shame in that, as long as we wake up to it before it’s too late to change.

I find myself thinking, How could anyone cheat on someone like her? As if beautiful people are immune to the damage a screwed-up man can create.