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Sarah is quiet as she awaits Brent's answer. The hopeful look is still on her face, but it seems false. Before he opens his mouth to speak, Brent realizes that she knows what is coming.

"I'm sorry this went on so long," he says. "It should have happened this summer, but there was the fire, and ... I kept putting it off."

He can see that Sarah is ready for him to lash out at her for her role in the chain of events that has led to this moment, but that isn't what he's here to do tonight. They have wasted too much time on that already.

"Truthfully, I think I was avoiding it a little," he continues. "I don't think I wanted to own up to my part in this whole thing."

That sends Sarah shooting back to that awful night several months ago when Brent jumped to Molly's defense -- by admitting that he was the one who had feelings for her. Whatever vindication she might have felt at hearing him take responsibility is dampened by the knowledge that he is confessing to wanting Molly.

He reaches inside his jacket and Sarah flinches. This is really it.

"But I'm ready now," he says. "I have to be. It's time for us to move on."

Sarah's chest tightens as his hand reemerges from his jacket. It reaches out to hand her what it has recovered.

"The divorce papers," he explains, as though it were necessary. "Please, set us both free. Sign them."

END OF EPISODE #233

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