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I’m embarrassed.  Tom is animated, manic even.  He ignores Sylvia.  She half-turns away and stares hard at her engagement ring.  Her pearls and high heels are incongruous on the beach, contrasting with his casuals.  But that’s not it.

Dear God, I think, she’s pregnant.  And he doesn’t want to know.

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