”She seemed really excited, so I saw no reason not to go along with it. I triple-wrapped the blindfold, and wrapped it around my eyes, tied it with ... double knot, and put my glasses back on for comedic effect. My wife bopped me in the nose just to make sure I couldn't see. When she was satisfied that my vision was completely obscured, she led me into the living room. “Okay, honey,” she said, “take off the blindfold.” I admit, my tie-job was better than expected, so it took me a second to. Rose massaged my back ever so softly over our twenty-minute make out session.'Damn, this whole experience has been mind-blowing. I gave birth to some special woman.'As those twenty minutes came towards the end, we lost a little steam, but kept our lips together. Suddenly, we both began breathing slightly less, and my heart rate slowly went down too.At the very end, our lips stopped moving entirely, and my head lazily rose up just a couple inches. "I swear, I could have ten more kids, and none. ***My eyes struggled to adjust to the light, and something seemed to be flickering. The television was tuned to a local channel, there was a news story tuned to some accident scene."The car belonged to 18 year old Dan Pastie of San Mateo, a local highschool student, and DNA testing proved that his body was the one found at the bottom of the creek. He was believed to be drinking at the time." How do you like our cover-up? We planned it perfectly, you're dead, nobody will miss you now, and you. Most of the time, though, I establish a base, a sort of home. Believe me, constant travelers need a home of some sort. A place of familiar faces and loving embraces.”“Like a soldier returning home from a long campaign.”“Exactly. A joyous return to the family he loves. To his most comfortable bed. To a village who looks at him as a friendly neighbor rather than a suspicious stranger.”“So you plan to journey out and return here.”“After the weather becomes hospitable. But why wait?”“If you went.