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Affair 4 The Final Chapter (MF, cheat)
by Anonymous (rickr@jumpnet.com)
(c) 1997


To all who have been following The Affair and have written 
of their own experiences, I thank you.  It's been some time 
since I've written anything about it but I felt I owed all 
of those people an ending of some kind. Frankly the story 
has become very difficult to continue, on an emotional level 
and I was considering just dropping it, but for those that 
are interested, here is how things stand, and most likely 
will remain...

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After Michael and Sara's encounter in August of 1994, after 
they had planned to be together by Christmas, Michael did 
leave his family, moving into an apartment some 60 miles 
west of San Antonio.  (Sara, by this time had moved closer 
to him as her husband had once again been transferred)  The 
day he made the move, he phoned Sara to let her know and was 
told by her that some legal problems had developed for her 
and her husband, and after discussing it with her attorney 
she was advised that it would not be in her best interests 
to leave her family at that time.

They kept in contact, on a daily basis and he would make the 
two hour trip to see her over her lunch hour every Saturday, 
and then drive the two hours back and spend the rest of the 
week alone, waiting for things to be resolved, so that they 
could finally be together.  In March of 1996, he changed 
jobs and moved once again, this time to within a mile of 
where she lived, hoping to have more opportunities to be 
together.  He gave her a key to the apartment so that she 
could stop by whenever she wanted to.

In April, he came home to find a note on his counter.  She 
had written that she had been torn in two directions for too 
long and needed to make a decision, between her loyalty to 
her children and her love for him.  The children won.  She 
felt they would never forgive her if she ever left their 
father, and she couldn't make that sacrifice, not even for 
Michael.  She said that she had closed her mailbox and for 
him not to write to her again. She would mail the key back 
to him the next day, which she did.

Michael respected her wishes, no matter that he was dying 
inside for want of contacting her.  But in his heart, he 
knew the decision wouldn't last.  They had been through this 
before, each of them at one time or another, and the other 
was always strong enough to wait until there was a change of 
heart...and so it was, this time, as well.  A month later, 
he got a call from her.  She was still torn, but still loved 
him and didn't want to just lose all contact with him.

Over the next several months, they saw and talked with each 
other less and less. The things they had to say to each 
other became more strained...conversation just didn't seem 
to be as easy anymore, most likely because they both knew, 
in their minds even if they didn't want to admit it in their 
hearts, that they would never really be together, and 
neither wanted to have to be hurt again. He was afraid of 
saying too much and frightening her off again, so they 
pretended to be just friends, even though it was obvious it 
was tearing them both up.  They never did make love again 
after that letter in April.  She was afraid to even let him 
touch her for fear of losing her resolve, and it was July 
before they even kissed again.

In August, she moved yet again.  Not far, but far enough so 
they could no longer meet in the local park and talk with 
each other.  

Now it is November and they haven't seen or talked with one 
another in over a month.  Circumstances have made that 
impossible, and Michael has finally admitted to himself that 
it is time to get on with his life.  He knows how difficult 
that is going to be, because in the back of his mind there 
will always be that comparison, that knowing that he blew 
his opportunity to be with his soulmate when he made the 
decision to leave that cold morning in Denver.  In all of 
this, that is his only regret because he is convinced that 
was the one thing that could have made a difference in all 
of this.

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To everyone that was hoping this was going to have a happy 
ending, let me assure you, nobody is more disappointed than 
I am, but this has always been a factual representation of 
both the happiest and saddest times in a life...all in less 
than a three year time span.

Rick