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Looking back…
That was probably the biggest lie he ever told.
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While I struggled through another week of school runs, grocery bags, and endless responsibilities…
Daniel wasn’t sitting in conference rooms.
He was lying beneath palm trees beside another woman.
Her name, as I would later discover, was Vanessa.
She asked him the question I’d been too trusting to imagine.
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