Thank you, sir." "I hope you work out so I don't need to send you back to prison." SWAT! "Three. Thank you, sir." "Now stay in position. I want to int...oduce you to the cane." Alice's poor bottom was really hurting, but yet she felt very warm andnice. "I want you to count each stroke and say `Thank you' again." "Yes, sir." Next, she felt a tapping on her tender bare bottom, heard a strangewhistle, then Crack! It felt like a hundred bees had just stung her, in a straight line. Alice quickly stood. Looking down at the envelope in his hands, he saw his name written in her familiar script across the front. He brought it to his nose and inhaled her lingering scent on it. His heart beat quickened as he turned it over and wished desperately that She had sealed it so that he might lick the place where her tongue had touched it, disappointed that the flap was only tucked in. Finally he opened it and pulled out a slim single page with a neatly typed note. Stepping closer to the dim light doorway. Janie turned slightly and extended her hand. Aggie handed something to her. She turned back to Clint. “With this ring, I thee wed. For better or worse, in sickness and in health, to honor, cherish and OBEY from this day forward, until death make us part,” she slipped the ring on a surprised Clint’s finger. She had subjugated herself to him for life in that change of the phrase.Reverend Moore concluded with “By the authority vested in me by God, the state, and the church, I now pronounce y’all. It really did split our family and the ensuing divorce was bitter.I have two brothers, each older, and, at the time, Russell was fourteen, Dale, twelve and I, John, was just ten. It was so clear which parent was at fault that it took no effort for any of us to decide who we wanted to live with; it was our dad. Mom got visiting rights but we lived with our father after our mom moved out of the house.Life went along nonetheless and a year or so later, Dad went to his twenty-fifth high school.