When she came over to the house the next morning to get Dwightee and April, to take them back to her house, all she said to Joyce was that Emily still...needed some more time.Nothing else changed before it was time for the three of us to fly back to Birmingham. I could see the frustration that Joyce was having to deal with. I tried to reassure her that I was in no hurry, and that a few days, weeks, or even months wouldn't be a problem for me. All the children were back living in Ridgeline now.. Man, I also caught, he calls himself a man. And he misses his wife.Now I understood, and pitied this creature -- this man -- whose loss was so like my own. And I understood why I felt the deep connection I did. Perhaps the gods had brought us together for a reason... ... I must have sat like that for several minutes, oblivious, when I realized that something was gently nudging me. Opening my eyes, I found one of the dolphins looking up at me. I was fairly sure it was the same one which had. The tail stuck through the back of the baseball cap she wore. Very sexy to an ex-soldier boy or to any red blooded young man for that matter. She placed her order with the car hop. (In those days’ people, usually girls would come out to your car to take and deliver your order). Then she did the coolest thing. The glove box area had been taken out and a record turntable had been installed. She placed a LP record on the turntable and played it. So cool. We were still fighting with 8 tracks and. I was gathering credit points for a reward. And I collected them with a smile.The reason for my smile was in the second cubicle from the left. She was the most beautiful woman I knew and she had done strange things to me. Right now, for example, she had reduced me to a teenage boy who imagined her standing half naked behind that flimsy curtain. And, as a teenage boy, I had had to rearrange the crotch of my pants, hoping that none of the women around me would notice what I had done.Yes, I was in.