title: Breaking Stephan: A Pearls Before Swine Collection
author: Stephan Pastis
description: "It's just a very, very funny collection of daily and colorized Sunday strips built around the central conceit that a comic strip should make you laugh, and laugh often. Fifteen books in and theres still gas in the tank  mission accomplished."(Trent McGee, Popzara.com)
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  > To Food Fashionista Mika Takeuchi. Thank you for believing in me even when I
  > had my doubts. Here’s to twenty years of friendship.
  
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  JUST ONE NIGHT,
  
  PART 2:
  
  Exposed
  
  
  
  
  
  CHAPTER 1
  
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  ELEVEN DAYS AGO I met a man with strong, beautiful arms and salt-and-pepper
  hair. Robert Dade. We were in Vegas and he bought my attention with a smile.
  We talked, first at a blackjack table, then at a bar, and later in his hotel
  room.
  
  I should have thought of Dave when Robert sat down by my side. Dave, the man
  who I’ve been dating for six years, the man who wants to make me his wife. I
  should have remembered my commitments before I opened my body for Robert on
  that Vegas night. But Robert, he unleashed an animal from within me, one that
  clawed his back and bit his neck. I didn’t know what kind of beast it was. I
  didn’t understand the chaos it could unleash.
  
  And yet that chaos had been so sweet. Like ice crea