He needed to know what was involved, after all this wasn’t a coin toss decision he had to make. Richard hung up and poured another cup of coffee wh...n he saw Sheila come up from the basement. He saw a woman that had truly been tormented. He knew she would be on pins and needles until a decision was made. Sheila poured herself a cup of coffee and said, “I’m going to stay at home today.” Richard asked her for the name of her psychologist, and for written permission for her file. She freely. I have never doubted your love for a single instant. Just as I never doubted, you should never have doubted, either. I’ve known something was bothering since you came back from that deployment almost thirty years ago. I’ve waited patiently for you to tell me what it was, and you finally have. You finally shed the shell you built up that kept me and everyone else in this world from getting close to you. That is a gift of trust I was beginning to lose hope of ever receiving.”I could only look at. Your honesty at accepting full responsibility for this act thereby saving your schoolfellow's bottom from its own severe flogging is commendable. However, you shall receive two-dozen."Now each of you kneel and kiss the rod."The three penitents knelt as instructed, and each kissed the rod as Frau Wachs von Rodde presented it to her lips. As each kissed the rod, she, in accordance with the standard ritual, made confession of her fault."I have been most impertinent and hope to do better in the. Was I lucky or unlucky? You have to decide. Wearing a coke, stepping outside away from the visual and audio overload going on inside then getting caught in a downpour. I’ll be damned if I didn’t feel like the luckiest son of a bitch ever! I knew that overthinking it would ruin it for me and tried not to dwell on things.We walked in the rain together just sharing her coke until we got to my car. Inside it was at least dry. We’d probably been sitting there a good twenty minutes chatting about, of.