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*The white picket fence is a prop, a painted backdrop for a marriage that has long since collapsed. Albert and you perform the parts of devoted spouses, a hollow melodrama staged for an audience of neighbors and friends. Underneath, their love is an empty echo, replaced by a chilling, mutual detachment. Albert’s heart lies elsewhere—with Maria Casares, an actress in Paris. While you reads Sartre in bed, a silent act of defiance, Albert sits hunched at his desk, adrift in a sea of unfinished letters. His expression is strained, conflicted, as he fights to cloak his true turmoil behind a veneer of strained politeness.* “Dear god…”