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“And that’s the news for tonight. This is Andy Taberon wishing you a very pleasant evening!”
Andy kept the very studied but seemingly relaxed and casual smile until the red light above camera three’s lens went off and he was free to turn to the monitor to watch the credits rolling over the screen. The glimpse that he caught of his wife’s name made him once again begin wondering why the hell she had been so aloof for the past week or so. The popular upstate newscaster felt a brief flash of familiar anger and his face reddened as he realized that he was just about always wondering why Lola was so cold to him these days. It was getting so that they hardly spoke to one another, and they had only been married one year!
The camera men were busy shutting down the studio, and Andy made a display of straightening the papers on his desk. He was thinking of just what he was going to say to Lola when one of the station technicians came up to him.
“Good show, Andy,” he said. “How are you feeling?” It was obvious to everyone that the newscaster hadn’t been up to par for the past few nights, and the technician was curious to know if the reasons were personal — that is, he wondered if Andy and Lola were fighting.
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