Lynn got his calmness back after the second outburst. He was used tohaving to hold in his emotions while playing against SNERTs and trolls.The semi-pr...fessional gamer had to always stay calm to play his bestagainst them. If he was not so hurt from how his sister had beentreating him and upset that he lost out on valuable practice time to winhis dad a trip to the Super Bowl there would not had been two, let aloneone outburst. Lynn knew how to stay in control. The irate sisterinstructed the. ‘Yea well I grew up.’ I sneered at her. ‘Maybe you should.’ She looked at me affronted all of a sudden. I never saw her hand come up until it slapped me across the face. In retaliation I slapped her back. Then she grabbed my hair and we started wrestling around on the frozen ground. She tried to scratch me, I tried to rip her eyes out. When she bit my hand I backhanded her. I don’t know how much time past as we wrestled there on the icy ground in front of the mall. All I knew was that I wanted. We had one child and he was two states away in college. We had purchased a home far more expensive than we could afford years ago. Now our son was attending a very expensive private school. It seemed that debt was the sole reason we were still together.My wife, Gwen, was still an attractive woman in her early forties. I am three years her senior and only weigh a few pounds more than I did when we were married. It just seemed that our life was consumed with trying to make ends meet and keep the. 2 Being with God. The thought comforted. It feigned a sense of numbed acceptance, sneaking upon a person in slight degrees like a pill slipped in a drink. Most everyone Collin spoke with, met in the past few days, accepted that they survived. The comfort came with the thought that their friends, their family, children, brothers, sisters, teachers, neighbors, were with God. Collin doubted God anymore, so that wasn’t acomfort. If anything, he readily avoided thoughts of afterlife. The numbers,.