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"I spent the weekend hosting Anna&amp;#039;s big tenth birthday bash \u2013 and survived! We had an all-day party at an indoor recreational place, followed by a sleepover at our house that involved squealing, shrieking and even singing in epic proportions. It was great fun for all, but I have to tell you, I had a moment of pure fear at the party. Peter had decided that he would be joining us for the party after all. He called me before he left that morning, but took an inordinate amount of time getting there. I was just starting to wonder if he&amp;#039;d been in an accident when another horrifying thought occurred to me. Peter&amp;#039;s girlfriend lives very close to the place where we were having the party. Was he stopping to pick her and her daughter up and bring them? After all, Anna and her daughter really hit it off when they met. No, he wouldn&amp;#039;t do that to me. Would he? I&amp;#039;d like to think he wouldn&amp;#039;t, but who knows? Who knows what he&amp;#039;d do anymore? I&amp;#039;d like to think he wouldn&amp;#039;t spring something like that on me with no notice, but let me tell you \u2013 if I had a dollar for every time he did something that I thought he&amp;#039;d never do, I wouldn&amp;#039;t be behind on my mortgage. I was relieved when he finally showed up alone, after having stopped off for breakfast along the way. Whew! I know I&amp;#039;ll be meeting his girlfriend eventually. I can only hope that my poker face will be firmly in place when it happens. It really took me by surprise that I was so disconcerted by the prospect of meeting her. I thought I was over this! Did you find yourself wondering why you weren&amp;#039;t further along in the healing process? How did you handle it? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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