You can find it in the dictionnary, but the whole idea that one can have a permanent, extra-marital partner is too much against the grain of American morality.
Joanna
Shane Mage wrote:
>Pointless question:
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>Why, throughout this whole soap opera, was W's mistress *never*
>referred to as such, but always as his "girlfriend" or "companion?"
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