JJ was saying, "I sure hope I can get off next summer again for our sailing trip. How about you, Carl, do you think they'll let you out of the academy...to go with Dad?"Carl said, "I doubt it. Once you're in the academy, it's pretty much four straight years and I've still got three left. You finished high school early and finished the academy last year. That's how we both had so much leave saved up to go on the trip."JJ said, "I don't want the family to go without me, as they need us boys to make. "Wow. That sounded thrilling. And it proved to be just that.Daddy and I talked about me and my life all afternoon. Then he made mea nice macaroni and cheese dinner as I watched a DVD of "An Affair toRemember."We ate in a growing sense of companionship, then cleaned up the dishes.It was 8 o'clock. "Time for maintenance and bed, Sweetheart, Daddysaid.Omigosh. He called me sweetheart. Was he going to try and kiss me orsomething? What was maintenance?I found out.Daddy took my hand and led me to the. Suddenly, about ten o'clock,the Manager said I could take my meal-break of twenty minutes. Anne,the sous-chef, served me a nice plateful and ate hers at the same time.It was really nice to talk to a woman as a fellow-woman. She told mehow hard it was for women to succeed as chefs. As a waitress Iobviously ranked beneath her, but she could chat to me and not to thekitchen-hands.When I kept putting up a hand to feel my bun, Anne asked it it wasuncomfortable. I said it was a little and that it was. As to Michelle, they would push her arm asking when she was joining them again.”Whenever the boss says I am ready, ” Michelle would reply pushing them back.We sat down at a table and our breakfast order was taken. Michelle looked around the room as John watched her. Michelle asked to be excused. She walked to a young man around her age. She stood until the man invited her to sit down. They held hands as they talked.I asked John just who that was? John told me that was Kevin. John explained he.