If I should stumble during this mourning time, I might lose everything I have inherited. There are even great-grandchildren with pending claims on my ...hare."The room where we sat was not quite dark, but her eyes seemed luminous in the fading light. I stood and came to her side, offering my hand. She took it and rose beside me. I put my hand on her broad back, and she lifted her chin. I kissed her, and her arms came around my neck. Her body was warm and wonderful, firm but yielding. Our mouths. They had been seated for about ten minutes when the band started to play Hail to the Chief, everyone in the room stood up and walking up the isle towards them was the President and the First Lady. They walk up to our table Don solutes him he returns the solute, then they shake hands and Dan says Don, Melania I am proud to interduce my wife Tina, they shake hands, Melania bends over and says you really have no idea how much Dan has missed you, you are all he ever talks about, and now meeting you. It seemed so dreadful to be permanently estranged from her own mother. I did wonder if some compromise wouldn't be healthier.I don't know why, but after Molly left on that Tuesday evening, I was feeling dissatisfied, but I wasn't sure what I was dissatisfied with. I wondered if we were approaching the time when I should start raising the idea that this was it. This was as good as it gets. And we might as well accept it, we would be friends, we would provide a united front and a loving. "Didn't you hear me when I said I didn't want to go over there?" asked Sheryl, as soon as Shawn had driven his car back out onto the street."No, I didn't hear ya askin' nothing."Sheryl could see the surprise in his face, and though she didn't know how he couldn't have heard her, she could also see that he was perturbed by her wanting to go home, but she didn't care."Why didn't ya want ta see them anyway?"Sheryl didn't answer beyond rolling her eyes, and giving a disgusted sigh. She still.