We began to kid each other about who was a better sergeant. As I was leaving the hospital I asked her to go to dinner with me and our romance develope... quickly. Apparently Sally saw something worthwhile in the battle hardened solider.We had some wonderful years together in spite of some of the duty stations we lived at. After being married for a couple of years, I was going to be stationed at Fort Sill in Oklahoma for at least three years as an instructor so we decided to start a family. I came. You didn’t sleep? Conscious…all the time? What happened?’ she asked. ‘I don’t know. I just didn’t sleep. I could see and hear stuff. And I felt the cold, too. It was really bad and hurt like hell at first. But I got used to it. After some time I didn’t feel the pain anymore. And then the panic, and worries and weirdness went away too. After that I just felt alone. Just really bored.’ ‘Then what? Did you just lie there, all by yourself? For all those…years… Jesus, I can’t even begin to. Jessup found out that I'd bought hosses from a yahoo what had shot four of his riders. Fer ya own good, ya better git out of town as fast as ya kin move. I'll wait 'til tomorrow afore I tell him about ya, but that's the best I kin do fer ya."Shit! It looked like we had been caught up in a range war purely by accident. None of us wanted anything to do with that sort of thing, so I took the four horses and led them back to the family. I explained what had happened and told the others that we had. So, most of his teen life, he was pretty much a loner. Mark had a girlfriend for a while, but they broke up at the end of the school year when he had just finished his sophomore year. He wanted to find a summer job, but there werent that many since he waited until school was out to start looking. He finally found a job at the local DQ, but it was only about ten hours a week&hellip,not enough to keep him away from the house when the rest of the family was there. He got home from his second day.