. There I was, at work early in the cold and the frost, and the automatic timer hadn't worked yet again and my office was like a refrigerator. Being a...dispatcher for a small transport company in a small country town in the middle of nowhere had lost a lot of it's appeal over the months and I was giving my continued employment in this field considerable, and critical, thought.As usual, it being a Monday, a number of my drivers had reported in that they weren't fit to work and, the fact that I. No other explanation. Brenda acted just the same regardless of whose hair she was twiddling or arm she was caressing.Jackie shared the Alice and Rick story. She wanted us to know about the feeling she had with Alice, but not with Rick, and that she felt that with each of us, to include Brenda. A tear came to Brenda’s eye, but didn’t make it far before Jackie kissed it off her cheek and handed her a napkin.The conversation went on until late evening when we’d finished our third or fourth. She was waiting for a tow truck to arrive at the parking lot of a coffee shop. In a sad and anxious voice she told me that there was no way she could shop for groceries and cook dinner for me as planned. “Text me directions to where you are, Florence. I want to pick you up,” I said to her. “Are you sure?” she asked. “Yes, I’m sure. But…” I teased her. “But what, Gil?” Her voice crackled a bit as she spoke the words. “You’ll have to settle for pizza and beer for dinner tonight.” “Yes,. However, his personality shown through even at that young, tender age. He was always smiling, always laughing. His great grandfather was living with us at the time. So, in November, 1991 our house was a diverse mixture of ages and personalities. Great-grandfather was 73 at that time, that baby was sixteen months old and in between, there was myself, who was 34, my husband was 27, my two daughters were 10 and 12. I remember you sitting on your papa’s lap while I vacuumed the floor. He was.