" First, what happened to the dreaded Duncan?’ To her surprise, Annie found herself stinging a little. ‘He wasn’t so dreaded. Not by me, anyway.’ She had to defend him in order to defend herself. That was why people were so prickly about their partners, even their ex-partners. To admit that Duncan wasn’t up to much was to own up publicly to the terrible waste of time, and terrible lapses in judgement and taste. "
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