It worked well for a while- until it didn’t. he had this wife. so pure and giving. i had never met anyone selfless until i met her. i remember when ...e and i would go to pick up his two boys on the weekends how she would invite me in from the car, where i preferred to sit. she’d make me sweet southern iced tea. things sweet always turn bitter to me after a while. i sat there in her trailer, where she had to move after he left her with two young boys. i looked at the cheesy praying hands plaque. I met Tom at the University of Colorado in Boulder during my sophomore year of college. He invited me to coffee one day after class. We seemed to hit it off immediately. We began dating exclusively soon after our coffee date. We were married upon Tom's graduation in May, 1992, more than twenty three years ago. Upon graduation, Tom accepted a very good paying position with an energy company. The company was headquartered in the Woodlands, approximately fifty miles north of downtown Houston. We. .. just the small pairs of wrought-iron-looking bumper stanchions where they had once been bolted.She was a truely lovely sight of hidden engineering efficiency cloaked in the earned granduer of age. A large, hulking beatle of a truck... patiently lurking with untold, untapped potential!And as I climbed into the faded green, driver's, bucket seat... (curved, encompassing bucket seats!... standard in 1939! who'da thunk!)... and placed my hand on the knob of that tall, four-speed, floor shift. I dont want my baby to get hurt." He kissed her on the forehead and guided her into the apartment. It was small, but she liked it. Anthony went into the bedroom and put her bags on the floor. Melina followed him and put her arms around his waist, feeling his abs and chest under his shirt. Anthony turned around and picked her up, wrapping her legs around his waist. Melina felt like her heart was going to burst, he started kissing her neck and shoulders. Anthony placed her gently on the bed as.