Please be gentle with comments this is my first attempt. * The beginning of innocence lost. It was the summer of ’89, and although my memories of a...few precious hours with you still seemed clear and crisp in my mind from the previous year, my imagination was working overtime as to how you would react when we would be together again. For a year, in fact almost fourteen months, we had been writing to each other since we made our initial tentative first contact and in that time we had both grown. They could teach me a few things about paranoia. I have a few ideas, but I’ll need some time to pull things together. Meet me back in Riverwood. If I’m not back when you get there, wait for me. And keep an eye on the sky, this is only going to get worse.”“We can do that. I probably ought to stop and give the Greybeards this horn, anyway. But before you go, a few more questions, if I may.”“I told you, I’ll hold nothing back.”“When mother ... left ... Cyrodiil, there was peace and the Imperial. I wasn’t going to tell him it looked a damn sight better now after I’d taken it apart and done a bit of work on it. Earl had a fine collection of early western firearms, a dozen pistols and several rifles, including the Sharps and a Model 1873 Winchester. There were a few modern guns as well, but they were just off-the-shelf pieces.John smiled, “I’m pleased you think that. I thought you might want to become an active partner here. Keep your hand in, so to speak. What do you think?”“It depends. "Diana turned to her husband and gently kissed him. Turning back to the wives, she asked, "Who gives this woman away to this man?"In perfect synchronization, including Diana, the wives all said, "We all do."As Diana stepped back to her place, Laura took Helen's hand and stepped the two paces forward to bring them to Jeff, placing Helen's hand in Jeff's. Laura returned to her place, then the women all moved, the half circle changing into a full circle with Jeff a part of it, and Helen standing.