.b..but I won't need any and I wouldn't know what to buy." Of course you would know what to buy!... Remember, you are a woman of acertain age and you ...hould know enough by now. What would you expect tofind in her handbag?"She was right of course, but I was nervous and trying to wriggle out ofit.Off we went, only once did she have to remind me to show confidence. Inthe minimart, Kate browsed the makeup, while I made my selection andwent to pay.Once back home I admitted I was nervous, not so much. The place belonged to a doctor who was doing a year with a hospital in Boston doing an advanced residency. There were about nine months left before he would return; and that seemed fine with me.It came with a cook/housekeeper that lived in a small studio in back of the place. Ana was a widow in her sixties and turned out to be both a great housekeeper and an even better cook.I settled in, gradually finding out what there was to do on the island. I would go into Ponta Delgado for fishing or. We ended up making out at the end of our fourth date and things were great until I was invited to have dinner with her and her parents. I didn’t know it at the time, but that dinner ended things for us. We dated twice more before she told me she couldn’t see me anymore.“My parents don’t think you are right for me.”“Why?”“Because we are Catholic and you aren’t.”During the dinner her mom had asked me what church I went to and I told her I didn’t go to church.“Why not?”“I don’t see any sense to. The hum of the jet engines filled the passenger compartment. Vic looked over at his wife Sandy. She was finally asleep. Vic knew she hadn’t slept in three days and he sure wasn’t going to wake her now. They were the only two passengers on the private two engine jet that took off from Chattanooga that night. Vic heard their escort talking on the phone that evening that two other couples didn’t show up for the trip. Vic hardly blamed them either. He and Sandy almost changed their minds a couple.