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Submitted to Contest #326
Nobody saw it coming — or maybe the women did, or prayed for it. Who knows. Cheating the government was illegal: tax fraud, evasion, anything that shorted the state. Cheating a person was illegal too — fraud, scams, even plagiarism if you were ambitious enough. Every kind of cheating was punishable by law — except the kind that broke hearts. That changed last spring, when marital infidelity joined the criminal code. Adultery was now a capital offense, punishable by death. The only exception — the one mercy the law allowed — was a spouse’s pa...
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