What was Jamies big secret?
An entire episode has been devoted to this matter [1.15], where Paul badgers Jamie into revealing the secret. Two weeks before they moved in together (Valentine’s Day, 1991) into the apartment at 12th Street and Fifth Avenue, as she was packing up her things (including her toaster), Jamie felt “a door closing on a whole part of her life” and panicked at the thought of sharing her life with someone else. She had an afternoon affair at work with a co-worker (Stan Franklin) she used to have a crush on, and who was about to relocate to London. Jamie quickly realized her mistake, which made her appreciate Paul all the more, and she kept the affair a secret from everyone, including Fran, until Paul forced her hand. Jamie has also kept a few other little secrets, like her real middle name [3.11] and that she had failed to pay back her student loans to Yale [4.2]. Minor stuff by comparison.
