Once again we got lost in each other, just gazing at each other, taking in the moment, until we were snapped like a sling shot back to reality."Babe, ...id you forget about me?" Jack shouted from the shower.My eyes widened as I heard his words. "Oh my God! I completely forgot, shit!" I said, in a loud panicked whisper, as I jumped off the bed, scrambling to put myself back together. "Give me a second, babe!" I shouted back.Lauren and I quickly made me look presentable, with a different set of. You might go through several undulations in life, you keep changing, you keep growing. Neither of you will be the same people five years from now, remember. And then ten years, and twenty.’ I squeezed my perfect daughter close and felt her loving snuggle in return. ‘Do you think Daddy is listening?’ ‘Yes.’ I smiled with unspoken happiness into the darkness. ‘Are you sure?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘Are you, Daddy?’ she whispered. ‘Yes, sweetheart.’ She rolled over me and into the slot between us. ‘What do you. "What choice is there? Mom isn't getting better." I quieted my anger and put my hand on my father's shoulder. "You're starting to forget more and more."Dad's eyes were stricken when he looked at me, the fight draining from him. "I know, son. I know." His eyes had grown moist. "I forget you're not the same boy I bounced on my knee."I held my father as the tears began. Most days, he couldn't remember why his wife was in the hospital. In my heart I knew that a day would soon come when he'd forget. I was stunned. I thought I was hiding sufficiently in the shadows, but apparently was not. Shyly, I stepped into the room in my pajama bottoms, having stripped off the top during the night, my hands involuntarily over my crotch when I suddenly realized I was getting a boner watching my athletic aunties about to do battle. Linda snickered."S'matter, Jimmy, something come up this morning?" Linda, stop," Aunt Barbara chastised her, then whispered in a tone she thought I couldn't hear. "Let's.