A crewman from the Bedovy planted the St Andrews Ensign in the sand while the sailors shared out their stocks of vodka. Someone ran naked into the sea...to the shouted encouragement of the other men. Soon more followed until hundreds of naked, pink, male bodies thrashed about in the Atlantic surf.Returning, the five Destroyers steamed into the anchorage under full power, their battle ensigns flapping from their mainmasts. At the signal from Bravy they all turned to port in perfect order. The. He didn’t make it. Severe head injuries.”“Shit. Tomorrow’s the last race, right?”“Yeah, at Riverside. I assume that the Scene has had the rumors about them closing that track.”“Which sucks majorly since that’s where Bill won his first race! And where I saw my first race! The standings seemed locked in, though. Looks like Labonte, Gant, and Bill, in that order.”“Yeah, then Earnhardt and Jaws. Bill’s looking pretty good. I think next year he’s going to go on a tear!”“I hope we’ll see him win at. So, I summoned the last reserves of my emotional reserves, clasped Jill’s hands tight, and told her how it had to be.“Jill, unless we do something now, we’ll have nothing left. Jill, I think you and me need some space. That’s the only way we’ll truly both know how important our marriage still is to us.”“Dave, what are you saying,” her ragged and desperate voice asked, my use of the word ‘space’ ringing multiple alarm bells in her head.“Jill, I’m saying that I think we could do with a couple of. Mark looked at her quizzically and she looked at John. ‘The photo you have of you and your friends at graduation.’ ‘That’s right! I have a photo with you, Joey, Matt and I at graduation.’ John said grinning. ‘Wow. That was almost ten years ago. Can you believe it?’ Mark said. ‘What I really can’t believe is that you’re here, and you’re here with Alex! How did that happen?’ John asked. Alex glanced at the counter behind them. ‘Hey John, customers.’ Alex said. ‘I’ll call you and Louise later.