Friends Like These (2011)
“That morning she had gone on her walk, as usual. But if she’d been hoping to lose herself in the nothingness of physical activity, the expedition had been an abject failure. Her limbs were heavy, sapped of energy, and she had been desperately thirsty. She’d ended up just sitting on a bench in Rushcutters Bay in the shade of a fig tree, draining her water bottle and watching the usual army of personal trainers gleefully berating their paying customers. Their spirit was willing but their flesh wa...s weak. And, she thought, that was the perfect aphorism for her exploits from the night before. She had straggled to the roadside and hailed the bus back to Bondi Junction, huddling in a rear seat and cursing her irresolute nature. The glare of the morning revealed nothing much more than a sordid act. All the strides made over the past year to get her life back on track had been swept away by just one kiss. Of course he’d say his marriage was over. But he and Didi still lived as husband and wife.MoreLess
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