The telegram came on the sixth of August. I was gone two days later and woke up on August 9th aboard the Ike. The next ten months of my life were some...hing equivalent to a nightmare played out above the Persian Gulf, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Iraq.The one thing that kept me sane was the belief that at home waited a loving wife and two incredible boys. They were all mine, and I was going home to them. When the Grumman F-14 Tomcat engine flamed out on a flight with me in it, I knew I would. Plus the last time I did that, it was so much fun! The rest of my outfit included a little red mini skirt, white lacey blouse, and a pair of really silky sheer-to-waste Nude pantyhose to go along with my nude high heels.I had propped the door open and was waiting for Billy on the couch with my legs crossed and miniskirt hiked up so you could almost see my thigh (love those sheer to waist nylons!). He walked in and immediately dropped his pants which to my pleasant surprise, he was already. "What about a top?" I asked."Take off your top and let's see how that looks," Wilma demanded.I did as she said. She directed me to move in different ways. I did as she said and as I moved around lights flashed. I had been moving for fifteen minutes when she said, "Okay, we need to do something for a top. I'm not great at this, but I can do body paint pretty well. It will wear off after a couple of showers. I hope you don't mind." I don't think I have ever done it, but sure why not," I. “I don’t want your friend over here,” said his father during a routine argument.“What’s wrong with him?”“I don’t let people off the street coming into this house. You want to associate with him, that’s your own business. But this is my house, and he doesn’t set foot on this property, you hear?”That was the extent of their conversation on the topic of Clarence. Claude would have followed Clarence to the ends of the earth, but sometimes for reasons beyond anyone’s control one has to separate from.