I remember feeling overjoyed at the idea of beginning the year with this new person to share adventures with, especially the ocean adventures kind. ...he loves the ocean as much as I do, and so, we spent a few Saturday mornings together with her watching me frolic in the cold surf while she sat and drank coffee because she didn't have an actual bathing suit. We would walk the beach and talk together. She started kissing me on the cheek when we parted. I remember being surprised that she would. There I lefther, in a fitting place for the corpse of an animal, for the insects, birds andsmall scavengers of the forest. Her bones I shall collect once the flesh hasbeen stripped from them;? ground-up, theywill be a valuable source of calcium for the other dogs.' ? 'I had toremove her collar, of course; and it came as a shock to me to recall that itwas exactly fifty-nine years to the day since I'd buckled it around her neck. Iunclipped her chain -- the chain that had kept her tethered within. Susan checked the time with her gold wristwatch as she didn't want hernew husband to be kept waiting and saw that she only had five minutesin which to finish getting ready. She put on perfume and thanked herlucky stars that her nails were already varnished bright, shiny red.She picked out the heaviest hooped earrings she could find and clippedthem to her ear lobes, feeling their weight as she walked to the wardrobe to find her shoes.As Dan had directed, Susan took from the pairs of shoes in the. “Well OK then, I guess we're happy for you. It's just still a fast I think, but we're not you two, so if you want to, then go for it I guess,” I said.“Well thank you Callie. I really do love your mom, this isn't lust or anything like that, in case you didn't get the memo, it's what we had. It's not just sex,” Jeanette replied.“I get it Jeanette,” I said.So 2 weeks later, Jeanette was officially moved in with my mom. On the bright side, we officially had the house to ourselves. One Wednesday.