After a few seconds, her friend had gotten her breathing under control again and was staring at her, wide-eyed. "Something’s up with you, Helen Sand...rs, I tell you. You should be careful though, one day you invite your new neighbor, the next day you come back to an empty house. These young people nowadays have no sense of property." You sound just like grandma did." The so addressed huffed in indignation. "Really, you can’t judge people just from some gossip that might not even be. Over the next six months we sold about one fourth of it. Only it brought a million and fifty thousand dollars. We were going to come out great.Meanwhile, I decided to tear the old house down and just build a new one from scratch. It'd be so much better. Now I could afford to buy new materials and it would be a great project for me for the next year. I bought a small camping trailer and moved it onto the lot so I had a place to live. Then I just began tearing it down and hauling it off.I finally. Linda had let Sparky off his leash. And he followed her into the kitchen to put the Groceries away. Well as I brought in the last bags, here was Ole Sparky trying to hump Linda leg.I proceeded over to swat him and tell him no. Then Linda said that it was not his fault, and that some lady had brought her Dog to the Park that was in heat. I thought great, after remembering how some of the Dogs we had acted were when I was growing up, and some other dog went into heat in the area.I remember one. ' I didn't pay any attention to the girls sitting there staring at us, we just left the drugstore. We never let go of each other, all the way home. On the way, he asked about me and found out I was graduating in two weeks on Friday. He asked if I'd like to get married the day after, on Saturday. I told him I would and we kissed on my front porch."He met me every day after school in the drugstore, bought me a shake and spent a quarter on the jukebox. After the third day, my girlfriends gave up.