" When I saw you standing in the doorway watching us, I thought I was going to have to finger myself with Randi standing two feet away from me. That's...how much I wanted you. It took me almost three months to get up the nerve to tell you. Then it was three more weeks before I could get you to take me to bed. I figured out right then that you are really lousy at hints. So now I just tell you when I want to be naked with you – which is pretty much always, by the way. I guess I tell you when my. . she ... whatever," his mother stammered, "take the tent fromhere?" That would work well," Wayne said, leaving soon afterwards.That evening, River listened to a discussion that several times nearlyturned to argument coming from his parents' tent. He fell asleepfitfully, wondering if he would be woken at any moment and forced toflee from his beloved river. But he rose at his normal time, before thesun rose, and went out into the park.There were clouds in the sky this night, so the moon and. Grace and I insisted that would not happen until after they got out of college. Sleeping arrangements for the family remained quite flexible with two or sometimes three occupying our bed. I was very busy keeping four girls happy.After viewing what seemed like dozens of houses Grace and I found one we liked onShore View Lane on the waterfront of Lake Houston in an area called Atascocita. We arranged a time for all five of us to visit the property. The girls immediately fell in love with the. .. and welcomed it like an old friend she hadn’t seen in years.As they took off, she watched his hand, and wondered what her daughter was thinking about.It only took them twenty minutes to get there. The road was still blocked off with yellow tape, but Bobby got out and tore it loose from one tree. They drove up to the pile of twisted metal and ashes that was all that was left of his home, and got out to survey it.He was pointing out where they would have to dig when another car arrived. It was.