Retail, restaurants, bars, a good mystery bookstore. Actual pedestrians, something not seen in most of Johnson County. Fucking Kansas.Eva continued, �...�We have three kids, two girls and a boy. Then two years ago ... I lost my fourth baby. Miscarriage. A boy. No more kids for us. Which is fine, we’re blessed with the ones we already have.”I waited, she’d get to it in her own time.“But it had been eating at me. Like a low grade fever you’re not quite aware of?”I nodded.“One morning, Frank leaves. Briefly describing my family which consisted of four members. My young mother who was 42 years, my father 49 years and me and my elder brother. I had started my graduation and my brother had completed his studies and was earning. He had got his job a year back and was on probation. He was athletic and well built. My mother was a housewife and was very energetic.In my college I was surrounded by friends who were of the same age and all of them were conscious of themselves. We would joke, tease. ’ Had I said anything about being jealous? ‘What?’ I was still staring off at some distant spot on the horizon. ‘While you loaded the wagon the young widow Ames stopped on some pretext or other. I saw her watching you, the way your muscles bunched and flowed as you picked up those big barrels and those heavy bags, with hardly any effort. If I hadn’t been there she would have been scheming on how to get you in her knickers, for sure.’ ‘Really?’ ‘That’s not all. Did you notice those two. The first, she had vetoed. It was a lavender sequined tank top, with a denim skirt with fringe on the hem. The skirt was very short and when she had complained that her panties would show if she bent over in it, he had calmly said, “That’s why you don’t wear panties with an outfit like that.” She had kept the purple boots and hat that he’d chosen to go with that outfit, but had made him choose something else for her to wear in front of her high school friends. Since then, however, her.