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The Story: Happily married Mary Haines is living the privileged life of a society wife, hosting luncheons and kibbutzing with her best buds until a gossipy manicurist at Saks blabs a secret: Mr. Steven Haines is having an affair. Counseled by her mother to keep up appearances, Mary keeps up the stoic façade until she can take it no longer, and throws Steven out. With the support of her friends, Mary goes about her business reinventing herself as an independent woman and a single mother.

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Heads Up: It's not as graphic as Sex and the City, but there is plain talk about sex, diaphragms and orgasms, as well as about Alex's lesbian relationships. Off-color references abound. Example: When Mary, not yet clued into Steven's affair, comments that "Work is sucking the life out of him," Sylvie responds slyly, "Well, something certainly is." Molly smokes, cuts school, wears inappropriate clothing and talks back to her mother.

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