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Now, before we do get into today's first story, I just want to give you a couple of warnings of there's infidelity, suicidal thoughts, kidnapping and domestic violence all in one story.

It goes over several parts and was compiled by I am the low rider on Best of Up and is from Thrower Crocker Focker who says

My 44 male wife 41 female was recently contacted by her ex-boyfriend slash co-writer 36 male

and I've grown a bit nervous. Hello everyone. Let me first start by saying that my wife

and I are very open, maybe way too open about our past

and past partners and all that. She is my second wife. My first wife was big on fidelity and we broke

up over her cheating. The first wife and I share a son. My wife also has a daughter of her own

from a previous marriage. We've been married for five years and

our little blended family works well together. As I mentioned earlier, we are perhaps too open

about our past relationships. Her first husband was a serial cheater. He was a musician and slept

around with women from his gigs. She stumbled onto his emails only to learn that he was involved

with five other women, one of which he'd gotten pregnant. Not wanting their child to grow up in a broken

home, she wanted to save the relationship and reached out to one of her old internet friends

for advice. We're calling Chris. The two had been friends for seven years up until that point but had never met.

They were writing partners. In fact, before they lost contact, they'd been writing a novel together.

She tells me that when she reached out for support, he was very kind and had actually been

recommending a lot of ways to get past infidelity or what you should speak to an attorney about.

In general, being a good friend. Somewhere in that, they decided to revisit writing their book again.

According to her, they would casually flirt, but as they lived on opposite sides of the country,

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