“I didn’t try to fight it,” Dick said as he and Jane sat watching the skaters at the Sculpture Garden.

”You never mentioned you got a girl pregnant just days before she went off to college”

“We did it together, ” Dick replied robotically.

“And let me guess, Dicky Dearest. The upstanding members of the Doe family paid dearly to make the whole mess go away.”

“The child and its mother will want for nothing.”

“Want for nothing! You sound like those ghouls your father hired to draw up our prenups.”

“I suppose he looks like you,” Jane added.

“I wouldn’t know.”

“You should’ve told me you were a father.”

“You didn’t ask,” Dick replied.

Jane and Dick met working in the Trump White House. They didn’t expect honesty from each other.

Pat Shiplett

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