"...in her forties."

"...in her mid-forties." That made Paula raise her eyebrows. She could vividly remember meeting the peppy young Front Manager, with her cute face and the irrational fear that she was going to try and take Jed from her. That jealousy had never gone anywhere, Jed didn't actually seem to like Diana much, but Paula couldn't help but notice that the feeling wasn't mutual. If she was right, it seemed like Diana very much liked Jed, though she had never been able to prove it. None of that matched with what Jed was saying. "What I remember, and apparently no one else in the world does except me and Diana herself, is that she used to be a career mom, working here to support her family. Then, I was talking with a friend about her, wondering if she was any less of a hardass when she was younger, then the coin starting glowing and Diana had changed! And it seemingly changed reality too, all evidence shows this new reality as the right one." A curious look appeared on his face, and he asked, "So, what did the gold coin do?"

Suddenly, it felt like time had stopped for Paula. What was she going to do? Tell Jed that some guy thought she was the kind of girl who would sleep around and the coin made her be that way, that she'd fucked their neighbor and sucked off the guy who gave her a ride here? Jed sometimes worried about things like that, and even with the coin causing it, there was no way to know how he'd react. Maybe he doesn't need to know, Paula suddenly found herself thinking, her inner voice sounding more husky than normal. I can just tell him something else, leave the sex out of it. What he doesn't know, can't hurt him, right?