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Thank you. thinking of me, you don't know me well.

Here's C.J. Bishop telling me about how Victoria's brother and her brother's wife,

aka Ted's BFF's and Brad's aunt and uncle, discovered the affair between Ted and Patty.

His aunt and uncle, his wife is the one that noticed.

Apparently, they were visiting for Brad's graduation or maybe his sisters.

But they were here and Patty and Kurt and their family were, you know, also, of course,

involved and at this graduation party. And apparently they saw an interaction with Ted and Patty

that they felt was off, that they just, I mean, they just must have a lot better radar

than we do because we never experienced that, but they just caught them in a very, uh, odd moment.

And they didn't say anything. Months went by after this witnessed kind of interaction between

Patty and Ted. And one night they,

uh, they were talking to Ted on the phone and joking around and, you know, just kind of

bust in each other about certain things. I mean, that's just what they did. And I think it was

my husband's aunt had ended up saying to my father-in-law, like,

...