The Husband Who Vanished

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eside me, looking

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ive-streaming, he

returned today claiming her husband is not her husband. She says she

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had bought, filled

th a flourish, a possessiv

said, his voice drippin

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of something – guilt? – in

ion was pure, veno

her microphone close to my face.

swallow me. They were

the tile? How could they repla

aive heart, probably t

out a large, white leather-bound album. "Maybe this will

ed a DVD case.

er' s eye

you. Maybe seeing our special

ed around. Photos

dress, smiling at him. Cutting a

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