He said: "They had an understanding: She wouldn't ask too many questions and he wouldn't lie to her. It seemed easy enough, but it turned out that it was hard to live with. He was gone a lot of the time, going somewhere or other, for his job, for his fun, for whatever, and she waited for him to come back and resume their business from where it got left off. This went on for years and while no one was really happy, no one was was miserable enough to leave, so they endured. It took a heart attack to make the changes they both wanted, but were afraid to ask for. He got sick and, I guess tired, and while he was in the hospital he told her everything about what he had kept secret for so long. He recovered, of course, and she waited for him to come home, and he did. He came home from the hospital and she greeted him at the door and introduced her secret to him. I guess he wasn't all that surprised and I guess he probably guessed some time ago, but it still must have been a shock. After all, they had an understanding.

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