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Infidelity is such a pretty word, so light and delicate. Whereas the act itself is dark and thick with guilt, betrayal, confusion, pain, and (okay) sometimes enormous pleasure.

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Cynthia Heimel
Age: 70 †
Born: 1947
Born: July 13
Died: 2018
Died: February 25
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Pain
Confusion
Light
Guilt
Sometimes
Enormous
Okay
Infidelity
Pretty
Betrayal
Pleasure
Delicate
Dark
Thick
Word
Whereas

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