Woman gives birth to child fourteen months after husband's departure. The latter is made to believe it is legitimate

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Woman gives birth to child fourteen months after husband's departure. The latter is made to believe it is legitimate.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Gullible fools. · Nature of gullibility. · view the constellation · filed as J2342.2.1

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Filed under Husband away three years accepts children born in his absence as his own.

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Cuckolded "as per instructions." Woman tells husband that she has become pregnant during his absence according to his own instructions

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