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A few photographers snap pictures I continue

“I was amyself Not just from women But fro walls around myself So much so that what little family I did have left I was able to effectively sideline I did that so well I didn’t even knoas going on indirectly into the cameras in the back “But when I did finally arrive, I didn’t see a e between dad and Jocelyn I sao people ere unhappy with each other”

Now I got their attention Ti it home

“I’ve always operated according to my own personal code of honor, folks,” I tell the press I’ serious about this too “I would never break up a happy hoe But what I saasn’t a happy hoe”

People are starting to soften I can tell just by looking at their faces

“Over the course of time I cae, but it was an union that would be better off it were dissolved,” I conclude Let’s see what counterpunch the news has

“Does your father share that opinion?” a reporter from the back asks me

“First off, he’sa beat “And secondly, yes, by his own actions e was not suitable for hiu that we all kneas under the surface”

“Do you think this will help or hurt Mayor Anders in the can?” another reporter from the crowd asks

“I think without having to be tied doith aout for either of the assure you that it really wasn’t working out for either—I think this can only help my stepfather do his job as the best Mayor in the history of this city,” I say all in one sentence I have no fucking idea if dad will turn out to be a shitty ht now I’ to take on someone who makes Machiavelli look like a little kid

If you’re shaking your head at me, hear me out, okay? Can you really deny the possibility that Michael Anders—e already know is capable of seducing ahi to force hie so he can carry on a charade—wouldn’t stoop to the level of setting this whole thing up to blow up in our faces?

I’ conspiracy theories out there, but it’s gotta be fucking said Who’s to say that Michael didn’t just plant a reporter in here to ask Jocelyn the question that got her tripped up? If you’re thinking the election, think about howas the husband who’s wife cheated on him How many women would vote for hi? And we know he polls not so omen

That’s why despite all the planning, I still wanted to be close in case anything like this went down Because when push co to protect Jocelyn over my stepfather

“At the end of the day, Michael Ander’s first and true love is public service and holding office,” I say into the microphone “He’s better suited than his wife He lives and breathes for so like that Neither Jocelyn and I are like that”

The ca it all home