Every story has two sides. Every relationship has two perspectives. At age twenty-two, Lotto and Mathilde are tall, glamorous, madly in love and destined for greatness. A decade later, their marriage is still the envy of their friends, but behind closed doors things are even more complicated and remarkable than they have seemed.

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Every story has two sides.
Every relationship has two perspectives.

And sometimes, it turns out, the key to a great marriage is not its truths but its secrets.

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