ABSTRACT
Maggie sat comfortably in her chaise lounge by the pool in her backyard. It was late afternoon and she was sipping a glass of white wine, physically relaxing while at the same time continuing to experience emotional chaos. The incongruence of her life sometimes made it so difficult to function that she just had to check out for a while. Maggie wryly thought she could easily qualify to work as a field agent for the CIA. She had lived a double life for many years and believed no one suspected a thing. Maggie was thirty-six years old, raised in an upper middle-class family. She had graduated from a well-respected eastern university and had married Jake, four years her senior, who now provided for a successful upper middle-class family of their own. He worked hard and his future in the high-tech field seemed secure. Their two children, Hannah and Aaron, enjoyed even more privileges than Maggie had as a child.
