
“Sir… could you pretend to be my husband… just for one day?”
It took me several seconds to understand what the woman had just told me. We were in line at the Denver airport coffee shop, and I, a simple mechanical engineer just passing through, never imagined that a stranger—blonde, elegant, with eyes full of panic—would approach me with such a plea.
“Excuse me?” I asked, thinking I had misheard.
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