His lawyer’s brain was processing this and beginning to understand.
“So—”
The moment of truth.
“I had an affair with a woman. Before Mattie was born but after we got married.”
He looked like he was hit with a second volley.
Before he could speak, I continued and I didn’t stop until I was done. I told him that I had been with two people in my life and that I loved them both. He was one of them. That I had an affair with the other and had neither seen nor heard from her since she got into a taxi on Central Park West and headed to LaGuardia. That I always loved him as much as a lesbian could love a man. That if it weren’t for him there would be no Mattie. And that I was sorry for living this lie for so long and deceiving him about who and what I was. Who and what I am.
He sat back. “Let
