We spent the rest of the morning aroundthe house, Emma checking everything out whilst I finished off some workuntil we finally decided to go for a wal... and have a late lunch out, sowe grabbed a coat and headed out.We had a wonderful afternoon walking through the park kicking up theleaves that had fallen, I felt complete like we were meant to betogether, I never saw Emma stop smiling and I had not laughed so much ina long time. Returning home Emma headed to the bathroom whilst I pouredus a glass. Next to me Danny breathed that she looked radiant and I smiled again,"Why don't you just say that she's fucking gorgeous?" I whispered,"You're in a church Lenny" he hissed back at me, "Have some fucking respect" Bollocks" Fucking twat" Are you sure you've got the ring?" Oh fuck" he exclaimed, "Oh shit Lenny, I left it in, in -- " Where is it you prat?" I hissed,"In my pocket, where else?" he chuckled,I wanted to smack him, but he pulled my sleeve and whispered that my mother's friend was a bit. That evil man, those evil men, were going to use you and then throw you away. Andrew knew that and he made sure that they would never be able to anything like that to you again. He’s our hero. Yes, he killed them, and he is going to be punished for that, unjustly as far as I’m concerned. But to my mind he’s still a hero, no matter what that judge said,” said Anna.“He is my hero too, Anna. He will always be my hero. My hero and Kari’s. I just wish that we’d been able to get married. You know. You’ll see.’ I took her hand, and she gripped it tightly. I felt the humming tension in her muscles as she clung to it. Finally, we were there. Following the directions given in the magazine, I turned off the two-lane blacktop onto an unpaved road, marked only by a small wooden sign with the silhouette of a very fat woman and an arrow. Millie looked at me with a questioning, puzzled expression. ‘What was on that sign?’ she asked. Evidently women weren’t as quick to recognize that outline as.