another time zone there was a mouth, attached to a man. Below there were other parts which would also fit, or not. This was all she knew, all she was going to know. Now ditch script, go w/flow.
     Yet! The options were finite, as any woman of sound mind knew (and she surely qualified, even if walking around the office greased up like a cake pan). She could survey the options, from best to worst:

1. They turn out to be as fantastically matched as instinct had suggested. Since a major new client brings him to her city regularly, they are able to see each other often with logistical ease � virtually a bonus marriage, continuing to unfold and delight without hindering their responsible enjoyment of their respective primary families.
2. They screw, ecstatically at first then with decreasing degrees of satisfaction, until they cease and desist, having "learned something."
3. While they love each other, one or both fails to properly compartmentalize � probably her. One or both marriages breaks up � probably hers. She becomes that common casualty, the single mother in middle age.
   1. After many lonely years, to the delight of her children, she and her husband reunite, their bond all the stronger for the travail.
   2. After many lonely years of nobly focusing on her childrens' emotional health, she meets and marries
      1. A craggy but kind film star
      2. Charles, the Prince of Wales (Camilla is deeply disappointed, but used to it)
         1. She and Camilla fast friends
         2. Her daughter marries Camilla's son (does Camilla have children?)
      3. A partner in the firm who was in the background always, it turns out, longing for her.
         1. She and ex-wife fast friends
4. The sex is bad. From this bad sex she gets AIDS, and dies. Lifestyle improved by the insurance money, her husband remarries starlet. Her children don't miss her at all.
5. She takes the plane and stands at the gate like an idiot. He never shows up, never even calls.

     As a student she had hated making outlines, hated the way they boxed you, but aside from the jokey cameo appearances by the rich and famous this list did, in fact, prognosticate likely outcomes. While you could choose to meander without a map, the

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