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Book Review of The First Time

The First Time
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After sixteen years of marriage, Mattie Hart discovers that her husband, Jake--a high-profile Chicago attorney--is involved in yet another love affair. But a far greater crisis descends upon the Hart family after Jake leaves home: Mattie receives devastating new that will alter their lives. Wracked by guilt, Jake returns to the wife he has naver really loved and the teenage daughter who wants nothing to do with him.