We didn't talk about staying friends, but it seemed to land that way between us. Knowing we'd be seeing each other in school for years probably was a ...ig part of that.Maybe if we'd had an angry split, our reconciliation couldn't have happened. But we'd had a melancholy parting, and somehow that seemed to lend itself toward renewed friendship. I guess disappointment is faster to heal than vitriol.Another healing factor was having a front row seat to watch Wes pursuing Kendall.After a few days. He’d be getting another gift of sand dunes courtesy of the US Army. This wasn’t John’s first Christmas in the sandbox as an Apache pilot. The one thing about being a ‘gun bunny’ as the ‘lift kids,’ or cargo pilots, like to call the Apache pilots, was there was no better place in the world to be a gunship pilot than in Iraq. Nowhere else did the gunship do its fulltime mission of slinging hot lead at the oppressors of liberty.John was on his sixth deployment since 2001, four times to Iraq and. Nikki and I talked and talked."That's different than this," I said. "Here, I stay home most nights." And I got to go with you to that conference," she said.Yeah, that was fun: one of those trade shows for my industry. Fortunately they had provisions for a special program for spouses. Her reports were hilarious after her first day of fielding questions: "You're dad brought you to this show?" "No, I'm here with my husband." "Babe, you look so YOUNG? What do you DO to look like that?" "I hang. She looked at me got out and slid into back seat of Marvin car, the 2 thugs and in daylight I could see that's what they were pulled her in and ripped her skirt and blouse off 1 pulled her head towards his crotch saying Marvin told them you a good cocksucker, suck this saw her head bobbing, other thug was playing with her cunt and ass, Marvin yelled stay out the bitches ass I'm taking that cherry Saturday night in my bed,William said he just has a finger in it, bitch is squirming to get it.