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My Secret Affair #2
This issue contains multiple romance stories. In the first story, Helen reveals to her husband that she loves Robert, a man he has befriended, and asks if Robert can move in with them; when Robert awakens, the couple announce their desire to adopt him and raise him as their son, reconciling Helen's past feelings with a family arrangement. A second story follows a woman named Marion who becomes entangled in a deception: she rents an apartment under an assumed name with a man named Hubert, but later learns from her mother that Dick—the man she truly loves—has discovered the affair and ended their engagement, though Marion ultimately reconciles with Dick after the truth about the apartment is revealed. A third story depicts a woman named Karen who falls in love with a man named Dave during an evening of dancing, but after spending time together and considering marriage, Karen decides against it when Dave proves unreliable, choosing instead to marry Ralph.