" What do you mean?" Well, what do you think I meant? I guess he remembered that one of us used to be 'up for some fun' when we used to come here, and...he probably thought it was me." So you weren't, but Tina was?"Sally nodded slowly."And what were you doing, while Tina was having some fun?" I just used to sit at the bar and drink really." Nothing else?" No, not really."I knew she wasn't telling me the whole story, but I decided to change tack."What did Tina do then exactly?" I asked."Oh, you. The memories have warmed many a lonely night at a forward airbase.There is something I could never say in person, mostly because you were married to a fine man who helped build the planes that I flew.I was deeply in love with you. I hoped you could tell. No other woman attracted me after I flew my new plane away from you.Goodbye my love,Captain Bill Morrisey, USAAFMom watched as I read this letter, then began her tale, "His plane disappeared on a combat mission in the Pacific somewhere. It has. In my mind, that somewhat mitigated the error. I was sure that I would not be with Meredith again, and I’d make that clear to her BEFORE I went to San Diego again.The situation with Jasmine, and, potentially, with Liza in Pittsburgh was something very different. In a sense, they provided the emotional and physical closeness I had always needed. But was that a sufficient reason to be with them? In the past, Elyse had provided a resolution - she had traveled with me.Perhaps that was the solution. ”“Okay. Look, I gave my virginity to a sex worker, so I have no claim to any moral high ground here. It’s in the past, so let’s leave it there.”“I’m clinically depressed.”“I already knew that. So am I, and I’m pretty sure you knew that too.”She drew a deep breath and looked away again. “I ... uh ... wasn’t celibate while we were apart.”This actually did surprise me. I had figured she just holed up in her apartment and shut herself off from the world. “Okay. And?”“But ... I ... um ... I kind of.