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polite young woman her sister always wanted her to be.  She tossed her waist length jet black hair over her shoulder and got prepared to hear the juicy details. 
     
    Smiling uncontrollably, Delia started to describe every detail of Chase’s appearance from his sexy well-maintained facial hair to his full dark pink lips to his perfectly sculpted legs.  Delia always had a thing for men’s legs.  She remembered the first time she saw Jason’s legs as he played ultimate Frisbee on the mall in D.C.  She never imagined that she would date, let alone marry, such a perfect physical specimen of man.
     
    Donna Lee nodded her head impatiently, waiting for her sister to get to the good stuff, but Delia kept rattling on about his penetrating blue eyes with the long dark lashes, his luscious hair, his movie star smile.  It was downright sickening in Donna Lee’s book.
     
    “Did you screw him or not?”  she asked finally when she couldn’t take anymore of Delia’s romanticized descriptions.
     
    “Donna Lee!”
     
    “What?  I’m sorry, but you needed a good lay.  I mean, really, how long has it been?”
     
    “It hasn’t been that long.  My divorce isn’t even final.”
     
    “Well, the last three years of your marriage weren’t much of a marriage, now was it? Even in the beginning I bet that selfish bastard, Jason, never loved you properly.”
     
    “My sex life —”
     
    “— or lack thereof,” Donna Lee interrupted.
     
    “My sex life,” Delia started again as she glared at her sister, “is none of your business.”
     
    “Since when?”
     
    “Since now.”
     
    “Whatever.”  Donna Lee rolled her eyes then grabbed a handful of noodles with her bare hands and stuffed them into her mouth even though there was a perfectly good fork right next to her.  Delia cringed. “So, have you spoken to him since the cruise?”
     
    “No, and I don’t plan on it. I don’t think I’m ready for a serious relationship. He was what I needed when I needed it, but I’m happy with leaving him as a precious perfect memory of summer.”
     
    Donna Lee eyed her sister skeptically. “He was bad in bed wasn’t he?”
     
    “No, it’s not … he … I am not discussing this.”
     
    “It’s okay Dee. Not everyone is going to be as good as Jason. I mean Jason had a lot of practice. I mean a lot of practice.”
     
    “Check, please!”
     
    ***
     
    Delia was serious about not seeing Chase again. At least, not anytime soon. She knew he took the Golden Swan cruise every summer, so when she was ready, she could find him again. Right now, she needed to concentrate on herself. She’d decided that losing her job with the National Science Institute may not have been the worst thing. Staring into a microscope all day long without any interaction with other humans wasn’t good for her psyche.
     
    While packing the last few belongings from the condominium she shared with Jason, she noticed some brochures from local private schools. She wondered why they were in the house. They didn’t have any children. They didn’t even talk about having children. Then Delia had a dreadful thought. What if he wanted kids with Gina? Maybe she was already pregnant and they were deciding on a school for their unborn baby.  The waiting lists for some of those schools could be years.
     
    She banished the thought from her mind. Jason was too narcissistic to even consider having children. There had to be another explanation. Delia sat down and studied the brochures more carefully. Then she had a bizarre idea. Why not become a school teacher?  She certainly had enough education and it might be the welcome and drastic change she needed from her previous life. Maybe it would give her life some purpose and direction.
     
    After forwarding her resume to five different D.C. private schools, she received four phone calls within the week. Even without a teaching degree, she received offers from all the schools that called her. Three of those