Wait – no – it was mud all along! I was still within the pit, I had never left this hole of the most forsaken. But, of course I knew that all alon..., I merely got too caught up in my game. I laughed at my foolery and folded my knees back against my chest – a position I was now very familiar with – and there I laughed and laughed until slumber was once again mine. I awoke some time later, do not ask how long for by now hours were days and days – weeks. I knew only that since that first fateful. In moments it was all gone with some people walking away with cases of the stuff. "What the hell are they putting in that milk," I asked confused and Jim laughed again. "No clue, here come with me I think the owner of the farm is still here. She makes all the deliveries herself right now" he said leading me into the back. Moving between pallets and dodging stockers with carts who looked high as hell we finally got to the loading dock. My jaw dropped as I saw the woman signing the paperwork in. "Yeah sweetie I thought, that's why you had to drag me along to this affair. Mary came rushing up, "Rob, so good of you to come. I'm going to steal your lovely wife for a minute. There's an old friend of hers here and he's just dying to see her." I looked at Nan and she said "I'll be all right" and she walked off with Mary.I circulated and said hello to the people I knew and I caught occasional glimpses of Dan and Nan standing and talking. Mary and her husband had cleared the furniture out of. My father muttered something about taking over his portfolio.I guess money talks because the discussion went in a new direction. My father stopped talking about the negative aspects of the situation and began talking about how we could make my plan happen. He asked if I was willing to spend the money necessary for the legal fees and when I nodded he told me that he had a young lawyer in his firm that needed a case like this to cut his teeth on. My father saw the look on my face and he promised.