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Amid a raucous dinner, Chris posed a question: “You’re allowed to sleep with someone else, just once. Who’d ya pick?”

“Benedict Cumberbatch,” said Eve, Chris’s wife.

“He’s odd-looking,” said Mike, sitting opposite, with Franny. “You can talk,” said Eve, and they laughed.

“Zoë Kravitz,” said Chris.

“Predictable,” said Mike, before adding: “Helen Mirren.”

“Yes!” squealed Eve.

They looked at Franny: “Well?”

She blushed.

“Jesus, Fran, play the game,” insisted Mike.

“Fine, then! Chris,” she said.

“Hemsworth?”

“No. Chris,” she repeated, eyeballing him, and for once that night, no one had a thing to say.

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