Spoiler alert: It does not end well
(NEWSER) - PJ McDowell didn't exactly have the best reasons for getting married ("I was tired of being single and enduring a succession of short-term flings"), so it shouldn't come as much of a surprise that, 20 years into his marriage, he met another woman, fell madly in love, had a baby with her, and kept the whole thing a secret from his family. What does come as a surprise, however—to McDowell, at least—is the fact that the situation imploded, turning from "a romantic dream" into a nightmare, and turning his lover, Lisa, from a "goddess" into "the archetypal American female." (To McDowell, who grew up in the UK, that is not a good thing.) More»