We agreed to swap our magazines. The shops were called “Campbell’s Health Stores”, there was one under the bridge on Stockwell Street and the ot...er was behind the Apollo concert venue on West Nile Street. Both were staffed by old men in white lab coats and they sold the usual supply of Durex and a few basic, if not noisy vibrators in hard pink plastic. The walls were adorned with a variety of foreign magazines, notably Color Climax from Sweden....you couldn’t browse these as they were all in. Came right up to him, searching the ground by his feet and when I located the joint, I stepped on it with my bare heel, grinding into the paving until it broke apart to nothing, and then ground it some more just for good measure. “Uncle Joe, what do you think you’re doing?” I asked angrily. “Daddy would go absolutely ape shit if he even thought you were smoking that crap on his property.” Uncle Joe was thrown off balance and still trying to collect himself. It didn’t help that he was half. She took my hand.I expected her to take me to my bedroom, but instead she went to my couch. That’s when I did the math - she was right between her periods like she had been a month ago. I followed her to the couch. Looks like it was going to be dry humping and making out without burying my tool into her tight sex like I wanted. Well - I guess wet boxers were better than knocking up this lovely young girl.The two of us positioned on the couch, her next to me. I reached out for her, kissing her. The real decision for Lydia and I to make was for how long this next assignment would be. Normally it would be for three years. But since I had already had two remote one year overseas tours without my family being able to accompany me early in my career during the war, I had the option of accepting a three year assignment with my family accompanying me, or opting instead for an unaccompanied curtailed 15 month tour.After talking it over, Lydia and I finally decided that the 15 month tour would.