We had small spats about it and I warned her that she was putting her career ahead of our relationship but she called me paranoid and then tried to pl...acate me, telling me that this thing would soon be over and then we would be back to normal."John paused again and then smiled bitterly. "Let's call a spade a spade, Renee. Let's not try to evade the obvious, Esther is screwing Moriarty and there is absolutely no way for me to accept that. My marriage is over, it's irrevocably broken. All I have. He was a little younger than me, and about my height, the same colour hair - though not starting to grey like mine - in fact we were a little similar. And I was turned on to extreme levels. And also apparently a raging narcissist to boot.He was also a bit obviously gay. Not camp or anything, but in his looks and slight mannerisms you would know that he liked men. Even I noticed and my gaydar is totally a clusterfuck.When i say 'took stock' the 'stock taking' lasted barely a second before we. “Got ya!” she yelled. Damn! I suddenly recognized her as Lacie McPartland from North Huntington. She’d placed second to me a few weeks ago.“Why didn’t you beat that other guy?” I gasped as we jogged into the chute and took our place numbers and times.“You didn’t give me a fast enough pace,” she said. “We needed three more seconds.”“I don’t know if I could have gotten another second a mile for those last three. Congratulations on a great run.” We looked at our place cards as we approached the. .." Who was that?" He's a ... cop! Please! It's BIG, Sweetie..." I'm coming! Fifteen minutes!"Kathy handed me the phone. "God! It's like pulling teeth, sometimes! Fortunately, I don't try, usually..." Quite the work ethic he has..." I chuckled."Yeah, well..." He's coming." Only because you scared him!" Wait here for him." I went back inside the classroom.The door guard had a questioner, "How bad is this?"The teacher sighed. "I've never been there, but..." What's the question?" I.