Starting somewhere in the mid-Sixties of Father Dan's youth, St. Catherine'ssaw its parishioners fall away as they fled the city in droves. Accordingl...,as the flight to the suburbs began to threaten the city's viability, enrollmentdropped and St. Catherine's Elementary School was forced by the dictates of thearchdiocese to close it's doors in the early Eighties. And, where once therectory housed four priests and a saintly overworked housekeeper, it was nowoccupied by but a single occupant, with. For those kinds of 'honors' shewouldn't have had to go further than St Louis at the most.And the topping was that Kirk hadn't even been faithful toher. Not even close! But he certainly expected her to befaithful to HIM. Kirk had just finished having a briefaffair with that slut Dr. Helen Noel. 'What a Christmaspresent that was to my self esteem. The woman was a hagcompared to me!' she thought, looking proudly at thegorgeous blond reflected in the mirror. The Captainclaimed that Dr Adam's. ''Was there much money there?'He shook his head. 'No, I left my wallet with most of my moneyin the car. I suppose I'd better find my way back there, exceptI'm not really certain where it was. I couldn't find any spacein the beach car-park, so I went to the centre of the town, andfound a car-park somewhere near the Town Hall.''I know it,' she said. 'I'll walk there with you, and then wecan use my mobile to call the RAC or whoever, to get you intoyour car. It's not far from there to my hotel, so. He told me that the foreman would show me what to do. So I became part of the framing crew and never went back to working concrete.The next step was learning how to plan and schedule jobs. I really enjoyed that part of the business. I had the best of both worlds, I was outside instead of in an office most of the time and I didn't have to do any of the grunt work. Good Deal. That job led to me meeting my wife Alyssa Riley. Well, she wasn't my wife then but she would be.We were building a summer.