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I saw a talk-show interview of a new author, all the rage, she had sold two million copies, her book is everywhere these days. It was tailor-made for women, a downcast wife looking for love, verbally abusive husband, trapped in a situation tough. Until one day she went out west, going on vacation alone, her husband said that he had work, brushed her off, she was on her own. She had gone out to a dude ranch, she had loved horses as a kid, where she met the ranch’s wrangler, a mountain man cowboy named Sid. He was what her husband was not, Sid was caring, confident, cool, he’d help he mouth, his touch would linger, and she’d smile back like a fool. They’d find themselves talking for hours, finding any excuse to touch, then one day in a mountain meadow they spread a blanket and made love. It was all that she lacked at home, passionate, intense, and sincere, she wished that she could never leave, but she had a life, a career…. And her cowboy love made peanuts, not enough for two to survive, nesides, this was infatuation, that’s what she told herself inside. But at home she couldn’t be happy, soon enough she longer for escape, so once a year, for a whole week, to her cowboy she’d make her way. And this continued for eight years, until she saw on their website, that her man died in a car crash, she hid her tears for that whole night. Yet he had left a parting gift, for she was sick in the mornings, this was the author’s tragic tale, it has countless fans adoring. To seal the deal she did proclaim that it was based on her own life, she’d changed names, but much was quite real, you sold more with tales of real strife. My own wife was enrapt by it, which caused me some little alarm, but she just laughed and dismissed it when I said such tales could do harm. But something just didn’t sit right, on the whole thing something seemed off, I know truth is stranger than fiction, but something kept making me scoff. Real life just doesn’t work this way, romance can never be that clear, then throw in infidelity? This tale was not what it appeared. So in free time I went online, digging into the author’s past, and saw that I was not the first to put this new writer on blast... CONCLUDES IN PART II.
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