" It was the gentle banter between them, the love that was blossoming andtheir not knowing what lay ahead."He chuckled. "I must admit, my eyes felt a ...ittle moist towards the end."We continued our walk stopping occasionally to look at the meadow in thelate sunset and listen to the blackbird serenade us. "I've recorded himon my phone," I pointed, "He's up there, on top of the ash tree but hehas a nest and a wife over there deep inside the shrubbery under the oak.Sometimes when I'm out here. We sat quietly for a long moment as the waves beat quietly against the sand (the mute was on).“Jenny misses you.”“So I heard.”As the waves washed ashore, nothing the least unusual happened with the black marks.“She cries over you at night.”“So I heard.”Time passed. Kim just concentrated on her thumbs as if waiting for some feature to become clear. Counting my breaths in an unorganized way, I continued to look at the page in my hands with breaks to the screen. The scene shifted to some other. There was adequate water and available farmland, once we got the carnivores under control. It was only about 15 minutes away from LS1 by ultralight or LTAC, or 2-3 hours by golf cart. This seemed like a reasonable compromise, so that's where we decided to put Village #2.Everybody who had initially offered to move agreed to this location, and several more families were willing to move, now that they knew that they would have electricity and running water.John and I were going to be moving around. She also had a strong overtone of sexuality. As time passed, I came to realize that almost everything she did or said was rooted somehow in sex. My interest grew, even though I was in my mid-sixties and she was thirty-something. Yeah, I could tap that.One night a few years later she and I went to see a mutually favorite band at a bar two towns over. She drove, we had our individual fun at the show, then she kept nodding off on the freeway going home. It was about two o’clock when we.