We hit Morgantown around lunchtime Tuesday, and since Tess had no plans to visit The Pines Country Club, where that week's tournament was to be held, ...ntil Wednesday, I just got her settled in at our latest RV park and then told her I was going to get lost for awhile.The park was in a semi-rural area, reasonably close to The Pines, but not very close to much of anything else. I walked a quarter-mile to a convenience store and called a cab from a pay phone. The cab took me to a large shopping. Children were given much license in this ancient culture, perhaps because of the demands of adult life which for almost everyone began at puberty.Food seemed always to be scarce. There were good years, of course, but too often they came only after long periods of hunger. Everyone worked almost every day. The corn required tending, along with the beans. The few goats the high priests kept could not be sacrificed except in times of extraordinary hardship. That’s what everyone had told him and his. He nodded, but I’m sure he expected my response and no more was said.The rest of the evening was pleasant and then they were gone and we had our place to ourselves once again. I did take the time to repark the van in the driveway. It was then I discovered what the man had meant by everything that was in the van would be mine. The $20,000 wheelchair was in it. Was I pissed off at what I saw as them snookering me? Oh yeah, but apparently my wife was good with it, so I gnashed my teeth, swallowed. Trying to avoid eye contact, but I knew it was inevitable. I sat down and rubbed the back of my neck nervously. I have a million questions running around my mind, Was she mad? Happy? Did she want me to see? Why she started..."Uh... when did you start doing 'this'?" I asked.Samantha sighed and said, "When you first left for the Navy, I was devastated. I've always loved you but I didn't know how to tell you. When you first got your girlfriend, I was angry, and sad. I've been masturbating to you.