He was around six and a half feet - no, over two meterstall, with slate-gray skin and butch-cut gray hair. He reminded me of aliving pillar of rock. W... waved. He waved back."Hey, girls!" he said cheerfully. "Happy Exodus!" Hey, baby," Mom said fondly, and gave him a hug."Hi," I said, standing back and waving."Trying to be cool, are you?" he said. "You're not escaping me, Alex,"I got swept up in a massive hug."Um, did Mom tell you I was planning on becoming a foreign exchangestudent?" I asked. No single father can object to that. In the next few weeks she babysat for me quite often, then we got married–great, even our college grades improved, and now I play in chess tournaments regularly but Cindy prefers to stay home. wh, 2003 ************************************************* Footnotes ************************************************* 1800+ player — a chess player whose rating is between 1800 and 1900. It’s a good, lower half range of the A-class rating. Chess masters have ratings. She never complained, mainly because she loved it too. — A few weekends ago was a special treat for my little slut wife. It was a beautiful Saturday afternoon and I wanted to spend it in the park reading. I put on a simple pair of khakis and a light shirt, my wife wore a sinfully-short sundress with nothing underneath and sandals. The sandals had straps that laced up the leg and above the knee. They looked either incredibly sexy or ridiculous depending on your taste. She and I thought they made. Maybe you wouldn’t mind working for a couple of hours tonight and we could get the whole thing sorted,” he said.“That would be fine by me,” she replied and made her exit leaving him licking his lips.It had turned out to be remarkably easy and even when he mentioned the overtime with his wife she didn’t seem to have any objection. “Work as long as you like,” she said, “Get the job done.”Sebastian could hardly wait for 5 o’clock to come around and got quite impatient when some employees lingered.