英语六级阅读 Wife’s friend: X’mas gunman distant after marriage
2009-01-03来源:和谐英语
The family invited Jauregui, her husband and their two children to their traditional Christmas Eve bash in Covina, but at the last minute Jauregui and her husband decided to attend midnight Mass instead.
Jauregui now shudders when she thinks how things could have turned out differently. She keeps tracing the floor plan of her best friend’s childhood home in her mind, wondering where she was when she was gunned down — and knowing she wouldn’t have been far from her soul mate’s side.
"If he didn’t care about her or her mom and dad, he certainly didn’t care about me. We wouldn’t have made it out alive, we wouldn’t have had a chance," Jauregui said, mascara streaking down her cheeks from her tears.
"It just goes through your mind: What was she thinking at that moment when she looked in his eyes?"
e told me, ’I don’t think he loves me anymore,’ and I said, ’Just ride it out and we’ll see,’" Jauregui said. "But it didn’t get better — they just kept growing apart."
The final straw, Jauregui said, was when Sylvia Pardo discovered tax papers that indicated her new husband had a son from a previous relationship that he hadn’t told her about. She confronted him and he denied it, so she called his mother, who told her Bruce Pardo had a son who was severely disabled after falling into a pool and almost drowning.
Bruce Pardo was supposed to have been watching the boy when the accident occurred, his mother told Sylvia Pardo.
The revelation devastated Sylvia Pardo — who had hoped to have a child with him — and she told her husband she wanted a divorce. He barely reacted, she would later tell Jauregui, and calmly moved her belongings to the curb and told her to move out.
"How can you marry somebody and not know a secret, that there was a child, a hidden child?" Jauregui said. "She thought she was his first wife and would h
Jauregui now shudders when she thinks how things could have turned out differently. She keeps tracing the floor plan of her best friend’s childhood home in her mind, wondering where she was when she was gunned down — and knowing she wouldn’t have been far from her soul mate’s side.
"If he didn’t care about her or her mom and dad, he certainly didn’t care about me. We wouldn’t have made it out alive, we wouldn’t have had a chance," Jauregui said, mascara streaking down her cheeks from her tears.
"It just goes through your mind: What was she thinking at that moment when she looked in his eyes?"
e told me, ’I don’t think he loves me anymore,’ and I said, ’Just ride it out and we’ll see,’" Jauregui said. "But it didn’t get better — they just kept growing apart."
The final straw, Jauregui said, was when Sylvia Pardo discovered tax papers that indicated her new husband had a son from a previous relationship that he hadn’t told her about. She confronted him and he denied it, so she called his mother, who told her Bruce Pardo had a son who was severely disabled after falling into a pool and almost drowning.
Bruce Pardo was supposed to have been watching the boy when the accident occurred, his mother told Sylvia Pardo.
The revelation devastated Sylvia Pardo — who had hoped to have a child with him — and she told her husband she wanted a divorce. He barely reacted, she would later tell Jauregui, and calmly moved her belongings to the curb and told her to move out.
"How can you marry somebody and not know a secret, that there was a child, a hidden child?" Jauregui said. "She thought she was his first wife and would h
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