In 1962, Walter Cousins made the biggest mistake of his life: he slept with the au pair for a month. She was an English exchange student named Diane Burroughs, and he was an actuary from Piersall-Crane, Inc., whose wife, that summer, had suffered a nervous breakdown.
Ed stood with his hands at the back of his head, like someone just arrested, while she abused him with a bar of soap.
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
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