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There�s nothing sordid about it now, unless you counted the past. She�s not even that much younger than him and my mother�Maria is two years younger than my mother, making her five years younger than my father. Hardly a staggering age difference. I think, though, that the fact that Maria is only two years younger than her only hurts my mother more because she can�t even complain to her friends that my dad left her for that �young trollop�. And, yes, my mother is the type of woman to use the word �trollop� in everyday conversation. I come by my affinity for words honestly. I have a father who is a lawyer who quite literally lived a double life for thirty years without anyone catching on and a mother who memorized the classics by the time she was in her teens and was halfway to getting her doctorate in English Literature at Berkley when I appeared on the scene and she dropped out of school to be a mom. Having achieved clarification Stanley nodded, once again jotting down a note on what I was sure was a very full page. �Have you met her?� �Maria?� �Is that the name of your father�s mistress?� �She�s just his girlfriend now,� I pointed out. �But for the majority of your life she was his mistress. When did you find out about the affair?� I sighed. �A little over two years ago.� �That had to have stung.� �I felt betrayed, yes, but I got past it. I never idealized my parent�s marriage. They fought, openly. They slept in separate bedrooms when I was at college�which is actually how I ended up meeting Josh,� I said. Hardly anyone knows how Josh and I really met�most people assume we went to school together, but that�s not the case. I think we may have told Donna one night while we were on the campaign trail�the first time around�but there were a lot of drunken nights after Lisa left that are still hazy to me so I can�t be sure. Stanley frowned, unsure of how one thing led to the other. �Tell me the story of you and Josh,� he said. I could tell he was intrigued, maybe not so much as a therapist, but as a man who knew Josh and was getting to know me and wanted to know how we became� what we are.

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