OH! MADAME FIRST LADY!

WITH HER STEAMY REVELATIONS IN A NEW BOOK, THE GOVERNOR'S WIFE RACHAEL WORBY HAS RAISED A STORM

"Gaston was different. When she tried slipping into bed wearing underpants, a T shirt, socks and a sweatshirt with a hood, he clicked on the light and gently told her she could not come to bed like that. He loved her body, she had beautiful breasts, he told her softly while she cried. He wanted to please her."

In any steamy romance novel, these slightly titillating words would cause scarcely a ripple. But in West Virginia last week, they and other passages in a newly published book created a political tsunami. For "Gaston" is Democratic Governor Gaston Caperton; and the object...

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