"They don't look much older than our Daughters, who are definitely NOT old enough to get married," Aunt Sara told us."We'll soon be sixteen, Ma'am," S...annon said just barely loud enough to be heard."We'll soon be fifteen," Clare added but not any louder than Shannon."That is NOT old enough to get married!" my Mother snapped, as she has very good hearing."Just how old do you need to be to get married?" my Father asked, as he and Pat's Father appeared in the room."I seem to remember two young. Our love life was okay… just okay. I suppose I had almost everything to be thankful for! I read my share of romance novels, sometimes wishing I was the main character - Perhaps the woman full of lust, passion, and opportunity.During summers, the local families would get together regularly for neighborhood parties. We all had swimming pools, kids, and expert BBQ-chef spouses. My next door neighbor and friend Joan and I would talk about our lives, family, and of course the neighborhood gossip.. I stopped by the mailboxes out front and grabbed a stack of the usualjunk mail."Don't you hate that?" a voice behind me asked. I turned to seeHeather, our neighbor from two doors down smiling at me as she picked upher mail, "Junk mail drives me crazy." What're you gonna do though right?" I replied. Heather was a cute, 24year-old brunette, and at 5 foot 7 she was almost as tall as me. Shelived with her husband of three years, Andy, and had become pretty goodfriends with my wife."I like the. As we stood there in the empty parking lot kissing he told me that he wanted to see me the next evening and that he was going to get a current blood test to make sure he was free of any STD's and told me that I could give his card to the testing lab and have mine done if I wanted us to continue seeing each other.It was quite a reasonable request for this day and age and I told him that it would please me to have it done with the idea that we would be together again.One last, long kiss and I was.