"So your divorce was only recent? In the last two years?" George asked, the lottery having only been brought into action then. She looked across the desk at Miranda. "I take it the marriage was not a happy one, at the end, if you didn't contest it, especially given the prospect of the lottery?"
She herself had been studiously ignoring the prospect, despite the fact she'd been almost harrassing Callum and Dana about their situations. Dana at least had a boyfriend, so if push came to shove the two could marry at the drop of a hat, or lottery number. But Callum had her worried, and she knew it was probably her own lack of emphasis on her own finding of a prospective partner that had allowed him to remain stalwartly single.
"Was your former husband not ammenable to the concept of 'long distance marriage'?" She was aware that some were in fact not co-habitating, from some of the emails she'd receievd, and others were married on paper only, to keep the government off their backs.