“Uh… I dunno, maybe? Probably not. I was just checking the time on my phone when I picked up our order… and saw my ex texted me. She asked which...hotel I’m staying at,” Brian admitted. “Kinda just put my head in a spin. She’d texted me yesterday, too, saying that we need to talk… I’d been trying to ignore that whole situation.”“Ugh,” Kelly mouthed, making a face at him. “Just what we needed. There’s like, no chance, right? She’s not tryin’ to come to the convention and see you, right?”Stephanie. “I know one of you speaks the local language but don’t let anyone know. If they can’t communicate it makes you less appealing to them. I will try to buy you and keep you together as a group. Do you have families back home and would they want to come to Rome to be with you?”The men all perked up and got interested with that comment. One of them said, “We all have families back at home but haven’t spoken to them in a while.”“We will have to see about finding them and bringing them here if they. Saturday, I started at one o’clock with two new players. I birdied the first four holes and then parred everything until the seventeenth. There I lined up and put the ball ten yards from the water. My chip was dead onto the cup about two feet away. An easy putt, and I had conquered the bad news hole from the day before. I parred eighteen to end up five under.Again the scorer spent an eternity checking my scorecard. He twice checked with the judge observing our round and then just nodded at me. .. maybe you can keep me company, Derek. I can get some sun while I read ... do you read a lot?”“Lordy, Evelyn. You should see his room. He has hundreds of books in there. It took the movers a half a day to get them upstairs.”“Is your bedroom upstairs too? Mine’s at the back, overlooking my pool. I have steps that come out of my bedroom and go right down to the water. I had it in my dreams when we bought the house, that I would walk down and have a moonlight skinny dip. Then Roger died and I.