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    â€œHe wanted me to change my job so I could be at home more, but I refused. He reasoned that I had patiently waited for him to do his thing, so he felt he had no right to ask me to give up what I loved. He didn’t know it was Salvador that I was loving!”
    â€œCan we get to the two-husbands, two-sets-of-children part?”
    â€œThings were fine for a year or so. I’d go off to work in Brazil for weeks or months and my husband would be at home doing his thing. One night while we were having dinner, Salvador took a little black box from his pocket, got on one knee and asked me to marry him. When I opened the box, the brilliance of the huge rock stunned me. Without giving it a thought, I said yes.”
    â€œSo Sal baby still didn’t know you were married?”
    â€œSalvador still doesn’t know I’m married!”
    â€œOkay, I’ve got to admit, you’ve got me curious. Go on.”
    â€œMeanwhile, when I returned to the States the next day, Eric, my husband, welcomed me home with open arms. On our way from the airport we take a different route than usual and when I question him he simply says, ‘I have a dreamy surprise for you.’ He pulls in front of a beautiful house with a huge bow on the front door. At that moment, I knew we belonged together.
    â€œWhen I looked at him, I saw a man who truly loved me and I couldn’t bring myself to hurt him. We’d grown up together. We were both children in adult bodies with big dreams when we met and we had lived those dreams. We belonged together.”
    â€œOkay, so now we have to tell Sal this ain’t gonna happen?”
    â€œThat was truly my plan.” Daphne begins to talk faster. “The six weeks I was at home with my husband were wonderful and so busy we didn’t even have time to take a deep breath. The night before I had to return to Brazil he looked at me and said I made him complete and that we were going to fill the house with babies that would grow up to be great leaders.
    â€œWhen I closed the car door I had every intention to break it off with Salvador the minute I landed.”
    â€œSo, since you’re on the line confessing your sins of bigamy, I know that didn’t come to pass.”
    In a defeated tone, Daphne says, “No.”
    â€œWhat did happen?”
    â€œWhen I arrived, Salvador was waiting for me as usual, but grinning brighter and broader than I had ever seen. Since it was our custom to have dinner at one of my favorite restaurants, I thought nothing of his taking me there. Once we stepped inside, the place was packed with cheering friends and family. It was an engagement party!”
    â€œI can see things getting a little more complex. Go on.”
    â€œEveryone told me how much they loved me and welcomed me to the family. But when his mother told me that she never thought her Salvador would find a woman to give her grandchildren it ripped my heart out. How could I break the news to them that I wasn’t free to marry her son?”
    â€œYou set your jaw, part your lips and begin speaking.” I do nothing to hide my sarcasm.
    â€œI knew I had to do it. But I had to choose the right time. And in a restaurant with a hundred people wasn’t the right place.”
    â€œSo why didn’t you tell him the minute you were alone?”
    â€œI don’t know,” Daphne whispers.
    â€œYeah you do. You saw the bling. You blingin’ in the U.S. and now you blingin’ in Brazil.” I laugh at my own quip. “I like that blingin’ in Brazil!”
    â€œHow dare you pass judgment on me! You make me seem so materialistic.”
    â€œIf the Prada fits, diva!”
    â€œI don’t have to take this! I’m hanging up!”
    â€œNo, you’re not. You love attention. That’s your drug of choice. So you’re the wife of a doctor with a government job that takes you to exotic lands and when you get to those exotic