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By COREY WILLIAMS
Associated Press Writer

DETROIT  –  Text messages from the pager of his former top aide appear to show the evolution of flirty and sexually explicit exchanges involving Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick to professions of love and eventually promises of marriage.

But for the married mayor and the now-divorced Christine Beatty, the outcome of their secret relationship referred to in the excerpts has been embarrassment, felony charges and possible prison time for both.

Beatty, the mayor’s former chief of staff, also has been out of a job for more than two months after she resigned following the publication in January of some text message excerpts.

In an 18-page document released Tuesday, many of the messages — which all were sent from or received on Beatty’s pager — refer to being in love.