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I smile. It’s a relief to imagine being beyond this moment in my life. It’s not a hardship to imagine when I’ve moved past these worries, past my defense and my career choices, past George and the decision of how I’m going to tell his wife the truth.

“It’s five years from now,” Easton says, and his deep voice helps me relax. “You have the day off and you wake up on your own