) There are circumstances connected with the trip which would give me occasion for very minor embarassment, and also for dredging up and explaining a ...ery old perceived wrong and resentment When I first arrived in Sweden, I stayed with a family who lived on a very small farm by the island of Oland, they commuted in to work. I particularly remember the mother who kindly welcomed me. We had some talks on the way to Oland, the literal substance of which I don’t recall, but some emotion or nature. "Your kids?" I can't have children, so John and I adopted them from a Russian orphanage a couple years ago," Eve explained. "They were barely a year old, but we decided to leave them that much of their Russian heritage. They're pretty good kids, and John makes quite the doting father. I really should get home and see them, if only for a few hours." She let out a sigh and continued. "Perhaps we'd better make plans for the next move." Yeah," Shae agreed. "Dave, from what I could pick off the TV. I knew it would never happen, after all he was my dad. This was always going to be my silent obsession. Even when I suggested that I be his date for the night I never thought it could end like it did. I figured I could just pretend for a night at being his. Was it the alcohol, or my burning lust that brought us to this moment?We arrived home and he opened the door and began to walk straight to his room. "Daddy, we should talk" I said, but he continued to his room in his zombie-like state. Tears. He shook his head. "No. And they are so proud of their achievement, I had no heart to say anything." I know. Neither did I. It never even crossed my mind that this could happen." Nor mine. I wonder if with all our teaching we have nevertheless done them no favor. Their thinking together gave them such an integrated structure." Well, what did we expect?" she asked rhetorically. "This is the planet Eden in the real world, not the Garden of Eden." Or it is the Garden of Eden, and a mean-spirited.
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