Sam stayed at her cousin's and we saw each other almost daily. She went to my exercise class with me. She sure got the looks from everyone but I made ...t known she was with me. She just laughed.We went everywhere together. The zoo, movies, amusement parks. A lot of times Marge and Jim went with us. It was amazing how much Sam and I still had in common. Especially the music. We were both still crazy about the old rock and roll tunes that our parents grew up with.Sam went home for a couple of. It’s kind of a ‘common-law’ thing, if you will. Anyway, we’d also like to consider Angie our wife as well, if that’s okay with Ray, Allan, and Charmaine. She can be their wife and ours at the same time, right?” Jillian proposed.“Sure, we can stipulate that if you wish, and if Angie wishes it!” Allan smiled.“My sentiments exactly,” Ray agreed.“Oh, absolutely! I also want to incorporate at least one part from the old contract, which is that, despite the ownership of holes and such, I still owe. They told me that half our shells didn't detonate and it was the same as at Loos - large stretches of the wire uncut and the Huns snug in their deep bunkers just waiting for the bombardment to finish. Then they're up on the parapet like a long dog after a rabbit, machine guns to the fore. Some battalions lost over seventy-five percent of their strength just negotiating the gaps in our wire. You see, they'd been marked with white tape. It gave the Hun machine gunners a perfect aiming-point." I. ******************************************* As they moved towards the sitting room Xander tried to make some idle conversation. ‘You’ve arrived early Aunt Sophia, I didn’t expect to see you unto next week.’ ‘That’s obvious Alexander. This is the example you are setting to your younger siblings?’ Sophia was in no mood for idle conversation and wanted to know what was going on. ‘No Aunt Sophia the others are out, I just left them and we didn’t expect there to be someone lurking in our house.’.