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Claire
Even though Alex was truly my best friend, and I could share almost anything with him, I couldn’t bring myself to address the topic of Josie’s baby’s paternity with him. We were in a comfortable place now, although we both had to try harder because our ease with each other didn’t come as naturally as it used to. I didn’t want to shake the fragile snow globe of our tentative happiness and risk creating a swirling storm of problems that we wouldn’t be able to recover from.
It didn’t make any sense, but it felt easier for me to bring the topic up with the other woman than it was to discuss directly with my husband. Justifying that imbalance in my mind, I decided that I needed to be sure the baby was truly Alex’s before I imploded our lives. The only person who could verify if my
