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[quote=Anonymous]When I was growing up in a suburb of a big city on the west coast, we lived in a very friendly neighborhood in a close-knit community.  The kids all played together and went to school together, and there were lots of parties.  Families would often travel together on weekends.  It was really fun.

The family next door to us had kids who were a little older than my sisters and I.  The parents and kids were attractive and accomplished; that had lived all over the world before moving to our community.  They had a greenhouse in their side yard.  A couple of houses down on the other side there was a family with kids a bit younger than we were.  They were recent arrivals, so we didn't know them well.  The mom was quiet and rather anxious about settling her kids into the neighborhood and schools.  The dad was kind of a partier.

My dad was a doctor and he didn't see patients on Tuesday afternoons (yes, he played golf :)).  One Tuesday afternoon when I was in high school, my younger sister and I came home and found the next-door neighbor dad sitting in the living room with my parents.  My mom whispered to us that we should go right up to our rooms and stay there.  A little while later she came up and told us that the neighbor had come to tell her and my dad that his wife was having an affair with partying dad.  I remember being shocked and sad for the kids in both families.

Late that night, after we'd all gone to bed, there was a lot of noise and lights outside my window.  I woke up to find that the wife of the partying dad had driven her car into our neighbor's greenhouse.  Fortunately, nobody was injured.  The next morning all of the kids from the two families were at the bus stop.  When the bus came and we got on, everyone seemed to be staring at them.  School was the same way.

Our next-door neighbors divorced, but the parents from down the street stayed together.  The kids all finished high school in our town.  I don't know whether or to what extent you could really say that the adults "recovered", but I have always felt that the kids in those two families just went through hell after the affair became public.             [/quote]

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