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Originally Posted by Shawnee123

OMG.

Granted, the wife is probably some gold-digging shrew,.

Actually, it wasn't the wife who was doing the digging.

Mr. Sanford, 49 years old, said he still hopes to reconcile with his wife, Jennifer Sullivan Sanford, 46, formerly a vice president at investment bank Lazard Freres & Co., and an heiress to the family that built the Skil Power Tools brand, now a subsidiary of Robert Bosch GmbH.

BTW, have you read some of his love notes? Wow! The guy had too much soul to be a Republican.

The e-mails from July 2008 reveal two enamored lovers, but also show Sanford's concern. "How in the world this lightening (sic) strike snuck up on us I am still not quite sure. As I have said to you before I certainly had a special feeling about you from the first time we met, but these feelings were contained and I genuinely enjoyed our special friendship and the comparing of all too many personal notes," Sanford wrote.


He continued, "I feel a little vulnerable because this is ground I have never certainly never covered before -- so if you have pearls of wisdom on how we figure all this out please let me know...In the meantime please sleep soundly knowing that despite the best efforts of my head my heart cries out for you, your voice, your body, the touch of your lips, the touch of your finger tips and an even deeper connection to your soul."


The woman, who The State identifies as simply "Maria," reciprocated Sanford's feelings. "You are my love ... something hard to believe even for myself as it's also a kind of impossible love, not only because of distance but situation. Sometimes you don't choose things, they just happen... I can't redirect my feelings and I am very happy with mine towards you."

I kept on thinking of that song from West Side Story. "Maria, I just met a girl named Maria......"