They pulled it in and tried to breathe it back out sending a string of bubbles out between our lips. Her hands on my sides, she headed for the surface...with powerful strokes of her legs. When we broke the surface, I coughed and sputtered as I dragged my mask off my face out the way. ‘Mark, for heaven’s sake you nearly drowned!’ she said, clearly furious at me. She lifted her mask to the top of her head. I looked at her, blinking water off my eyelashes. ‘Peggy, you were standing down there trying. ’ Then Jamie blurted out, probably because of the tequila, ‘Well maybe you should fuck Joe, he has a huge dick.’ There was only a few of us at the table but the comment by Jamie did not go over well. Shane, the neighbor and Becky all looked at me with a confused look. The neighbor and Becky because they did not know the background to the statement and Shane because well, no man wants to hear his wife say that about his friend I am sure. Jamie went on to explain the profile story but only she. ’ He asked Cricket whether she wanted a conjugal relationship with Dave, Alice, Pam, Heather, and Julie, and she answered, ‘Yes, I do.”Ross talked about the courage the group had to be in a polyamorous marriage with one another, praising the group for redefining the concept of marriage away from a traditional one.Matthew again stepped forward and Ross then had each person in the family put a ring on Cricket’s hand to further define and display the commitments being made. Cricket then put rings. And this goes double for you, Jashul. Being around me is dangerous. Probably the most dangerous place you could possibly be, actually.”“An’ why would ya say dat?” Dulgan scoffed.John tried to explain. “I—can’t say exactly. I’ve been thinking about this a lot since our friends died, and I realized that things like that, or worse will continue happening to me so long as I stay here.”“Stay ... in the swamp?” Dulgan guessed.“Stay in this world.” John clarified.“Now yer just talkin’ nonsense.”.