A heavenly feeling!!!!Catching my breath, I finished and dressed just as my hubby came in."A shower already?" He asked. "What's up?" Oh, I went for a ...un and got sweaty, so I figured I'd clean up." I lied"I brought some take-out so you wouldn't have to cook" He sweetly smiled.I thought to myself- "I could never find another as sweet as Dave! I don't want to fuck this up!"A nice dinner with chit chat ensued, and we watched some TV. Snuggled against him, I knew he needed some attention.I smiled. Everyone already there helped make dinner to start off the night and we all sat around the table to eat, elbow to elbow with twelve people sitting around the kitchen table. Ally sat right across from me, next to Alex, and every few minutes we'd catch eyes. We all helped clean up afterwards, and watched the New Year's TV special until everybody had shown up. At about 10:00 the liquor started flowing, the music got turned up, and the beer pong table came out. Ron and I ran the table for a while,. I didn’t think I’d be able to pass them off as tears of joy. The minister’s voice floated back into my ears. ‘Do you, Eleanor Isabel Brandon, take this man…’ When he had finished, I took a deep breath and said the words that would bind me to this stranger for the rest of my life. ‘I do.’ My hands clenched convulsively around his, and I sucked in a huge breath of air. For the rest of my life. For as long as we both shall live. Forever. With a stranger. He must have felt the same—I saw his. "I promise." Though at the moment, I'd have promised her anything regardless of what it was, just to see the light shine in her eyes again the way it had over the past three and a half decades that I'd spent with her.I saw her smile, for a moment she was twenty-six again, the age we had gotten married and began our life together."Don't live alone," she said weakly. "I'm not telling you to get married again if you don't want to. But ... promise me Jim, you won't live alone pining away for me.