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Good story. Not quite enough pathos for me in regards to Sandy, who obviously went off the deep end. Ryan, for his part was always a scumbag right up until the end but I felt like Sandy was just damaged goods who let people use her and got in over her head. The sad thing is, with as much as she loved Ben, if she had told him about her past and they had gotten her help, it probably never would have happened. Just goes to show - there should be no secrets in a marriage.

Great read. Might have been a little more interested in the psychosis of Sandy there especially more towards the end. I felt like I wanted a couple more sentences or paragraphs on her unraveling. Would be interesting to know if she had gotten a final conversation with Ben in, could she have gotten help or any sense of self awareness before becoming a stone killer ?

This was a great story, full of twists and turns, and it is a five-star story, for sure. It seems like in the end the good guy wins which I love in a good story. Very well-written and very entertaining. Great job!!!

I enjoyed the story very much, as I do most of StangStar’s work, but I do have one negative criticism.

I understand why she was talking to someone on social media, because she didn’t have a very happy marriage, but he was not in the same position when the story started.

Fortunately, it all worked out for this couple, but connecting inappropriately with people on social media has been the bane of many a marriage.

Just sayin….

Reading some of the comments was almost as much fun as reading the story, which I enjoyed very much, five stars worth. Like a lot of commenters, I wish that Tabitha and Joe Bob could have got back together, after all he also cheated on her. There was one bit that had me confused for a while, when Ryan went to see Mel after the restraining order, he was in the house trying to sweet talk Melanie. How did he get in with the locks being changed and why didn't she call the police on him?

Well, there were a lot of fucked up people in this story and some of them got what they deserved.

Enjoyed the story. Thanks for your writing. Wish you were still writing.

All your stories have a steno pool. Steno pools haven’t been a thing since the PC was invented in 1981.

5th year of High School... LOL!

Not your usual…. More like Just Plain Bob squared…

A big shaggy dog story….

Oh well, I’ll continue to hope for better from you

We'll be sure to tell your husband you'd forgive him if he impregnated another woman, and screwed a bunch more, all while you were adoring him and working your ass off for him, AngelRider. I mean, you're not immature or anything, are you? Far less a hypocrite, right? So you'll be just fine with it, I'm sure.

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I felt bad for Tabitha too, but "poverty, poor upbringing, and poor education" are not an excuse for the grave she dug herself. I grew up poor, with poor upbringing, and I'm a highschool dropout. I know others worse off than me. None of us would do what she did. All of us would happily tar and feather her for doing it. It's not just men who despise cheating sluts, regardless of the sex organs that slut happens to possess. Decent women do too.

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Reconciliation is nice and all, but if "judgemental men who (have scars from infidelity)" piss you off more than pedophiles and child rapists...there's something deeply, deeply wrong with you.