’ ‘To see what I’m missing.’ Faye giggled and dropped the top of her dress and stayed like that for a few minutes before she dressed and retur...ed to the kitchen to make the gravy and serve the chicken and roasted vegetables dinner. ‘We’ll continue on as friends huh?’ he said when kissing Faye goodnight. ‘I’d like that and perhaps you might like to eat out occasionally with Rosemary my lover?’ ‘Yeah and why not? I really like mature women who know what they are about.’ ‘I really like hearing. He is like you Lawrence, he has enough already!I am busy greeting my friends, and staying busy making sure that everyone has something to drink. Slowly as the group has gathered, the men congregate in a couple of groups and the women in one very large group. Of the 26 who actually come, nine are men and seventeen are women. The women are on the lanai. The two groups of men, five in my group, and four in the other, including Jake, have not been out on the lanai yet and are unaware of the. " How are you doing this winter, Mr. Jacobs? I haven't seen you out at all," I said."You don't know, do you?" he said. "I thought you were just coming late to offer your sympathy." He turned to look at me for the first time. His eyes looked sunken."What's wrong, Mr. Jacobs. Are you okay?" I don't know what made me do it, but I went and knelt by his chair and reached for his hand. His grip was like a vise."I'm sixty-nine years old, Brian. My son would have been forty-seven today." Would have. So much so, that she considered herself a bit of an expert. Well, as much of an expert as someone could be without any practical experience that is.She had come close on her eighteenth birthday but still, it was not close enough for her liking. Her father Homer had got drunk early in the night as usual and passed out causing considerable embarrassment to her mother Marge and herself. Marge had then spent the rest of evening making sure Homer didn’t choke on his own vomit or anything during the.