I appreciate your encouragement. We’ll need to get rings too,’ John said. ‘Only for you. I’m already wearing mine.’ She raised her left hand...for him to see. ‘Where did you get that?’ he asked. ‘You bought it for me, on our honeymoon at the beach. You insisted, remember?’ ‘Oh, yeah. I was trying to be so romantic, since we agreed there would be no romance after we got back home.’ ‘Biggest lies ever told, huh, John?’ she asked with a smile. ‘True’ He thought a moment, then said, ‘You’ve never. The sight was not a pleasant one. There was a lot of dead skin. Luckily, I am not very hairy. The nurse cautiously lifted my injured leg, and removed the cast. Then she cleaned my leg diligently. She stopped me, as I tried to flex my knee.The doctor scrutinized the X-rays, frowned and looked again."Is there a problem?" I asked."No. The bones are knitting well."They applied the new cast. The nurse who cleaned my leg assisted the doctor. Long leg cast again! Oh, no! It is straight at my knee! How. Age difference or not, she was too good looking and sexy for me not to be highly tempted. She blushed when she realized why I said what I said.We went back to Denny’s for breakfast and ate a fine meal. Taylor was a decent cook though her skills were limited by her lack of experience. When we finished, I taped a sign to the door. I called Bert who was with Ed. We put both phones on speaker and I introduced Taylor. They greeted her politely and were sympathetic about her losing her family.. The pretty fishgirl from my hallucination was hovering in front of me.Somehow I could see a lot better underwater now, like she'd found adiving mask for me. She looked to be around my age, and was about thecutest girl I'd ever seen. Definitely the cutest mermaid, and thatincludes AQUAMARINE, and Rikki from H2O: JUST ADD WATER...I was still under water. Still in the beach chair. But for some reasonno longer still drowning.My legs felt real funny---super thick, and like I couldn't tell wherethe.