I tried to not to get too involved in her personal life, yet she seemed to have no problem opening up to me. One night after the boys were in bed, she...knocked on my office door and peeked her head in."Cody and Braden are asleep Mr. Charles. I'm going to head home now."I smiled at her. "Thanks so much Ava. Were they good for you?" Oh! Absolutely! They are so much fun! They make me want to have my own!" Don't rush it," I said with a laugh. "There is plenty of time." Of course there is! But, I am. What really surprised Miriam was the young schoolboy ogling that she received by the all the boys who she had in her classroom. All the guys wanted to be in her class. The pretty blonde English teacher was very popular with the boys and was the cause of more than her share of wet dreams. Miriam was every schoolboy's dream.Early in the fall semester, the head football coach, Coach Carter, came to see Miriam after class one day."Ms. Smith," he said. "I need your help with one of our new. "Well," he said, still smiling widely as he looked between the two ofus. "I have to say it?s nice to come home and find you two gettingalong." Daddy, we always get along." Katie chided playfully."Right," he said to her before turning to me. "Thanks again for cominghome."I nodded and took a step back, appraising the man before me.This was my father in a world without my mother. A man who?d lost thelove of his life and was coping the best way he could. It was all tooeasy to imagine the decline.. Amazingly, she said yes. She wanted a small civil ceremony as soon as possible and we would plan for a large church ceremony during the summer."I have wanted to marry you since the day I saw you in Sara's hospital room," she said. "I am not letting you have the opportunity to change your mind."We waited for three days for her parents and for Mack and Ellie to arrive in Phoenix before we filed in front of a magistrate who performed the ceremony. The man was almost beside himself and we wound up.