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My husband said he had to work. Our daughter said her roommate was in the hospital. So I arrived alone for my fortieth birthday trip. But they were both at the lake house I had paid for, helping my husband's mistress celebrate her engagement to another man-a man who had no idea she was sleeping with my husband. She was wearing my late mother's cashmere wrap. My daughter had given her the bedroom I had booked for myself. When my husband saw me, he didn't apologize. He handed me a bundle of white ribbons and said, "Since you're here, you can help finish the arch." They thought I would swallow the humiliation and make their party perfect. They had forgotten that every reservation was in my name.