“You’ll get the Decree Nisi about three or four weeks after you give them the response, and the Decree Absolute will follow after another six. The... it will all be over.”I spoke more cheerfully than I felt. It was the final burial rite of a relationship of nearly a quarter of a century after all.She stopped in the doorway.“Caleb, this has been a business meeting, I appreciate that. Can we meet again? There’s a lot I want to tell you, and there are things I want to know. You’ll have questions as. Now they brought the two of us together unknowingly. Terry started to stammer. ‘Bill only told me that he was a sys admin named Jim. I didn’t know. I’m so sorry Marie. I didn’t want to..’ Marie cut her off. ‘Neither of you’ looking at her friends, ‘or you’ looking directly at me, ‘knew any of this. I think that we’re all adults now. We’re here, it’s dinner time.’ Then she stared at all of us. ‘Would we all like to have dinner together, the four of us? I’m up for it. Jim, would you please have. Though he didn't come right out and say it, he implied that he'd awakened that morning with a big hard-on and her on his mind. Terri thrilled to hear his husky voice on the phone, nervous as she was about being overheard."I guess you could stop by. My mother's gone and my sister's taking a nap upstairs. We couldn't do anything, though."As soon as she hung up the phone, she saw Keith come across his backyard, vault the fence easily and head toward the kitchen door. All Terri had on was her red. That’s great. Any remaining problems? She hinted at something but wouldn’t say what it was until she talked to you.”“Well, that’s what she wanted me to talk to you about. Errr, this is kind of awkward, so I’ll just spit it out since given the nature of the party I assume you and your friends are rather open minded about such things.”“Such things?”“Vanessa wasn’t going to tell you, but then she thought better of it. On and off, she can’t make up her mind; I told her we had to tell you. You may.