His devotion to his late wife seemed so solid, but how long should any man grieve after losing his wife? How long indeed would he? He was clearly a ma... in his prime, fit, handsome, confident and charming. Was two years sufficient when compared to the premature curtailment of a lifetime’s companionship? Now this woman seemed to be cut from exactly the same cloth as his late wife. Beautiful, tall, slim, graceful and dressed exceedingly well. Just the outfit she had on now, which she apparent. "Turn off that ruckus, Bethany." "It's not ruckus, Daddy. It's art." "Whatever you'd like to call it." "Just calm down, Daddy. Smile a bit." She got closer to her father and used her fingers to make him smile. She then started making weird faces with his whole face. "That's enough, sweetheart," he chuckled and smiled. "You're a silly one," he then said. "Just to see you smile and be in a good mood, Daddy. I also do it to stay my cute-self." He pinched her cheeks and said, "Your face already. I just can't bring myself to touch him anymore." "Are you saying you don't love him any more?" Kate said, "It's not about love. It's about a physiological reaction. I love Mark, but when I look at him, I just don't feel that... need to be naked with him that I used to." Amanda asked, "Is it really that big a deal?" A few of the girls nodded. Just then, Iris ran out and said, "Mom, Elliott says he's ready to go get his first bra, and dad says he doesn't know how to get him one that will fit, so. .. and we were. Provisioning took the rest of two days. Re-rigging the mast and standing rigging and fine tuning the rig fleshed out the week.The Baltic cabinetmaker was a great deal of help with the rig tuning.I paid.The dockyard apologized for the miscue ... they were used to the donkey failing at the worst possible times.None of the new cabin wood was veneer over ply so there wasn't any delamination. The smell did hang around for a couple of days ... we slept in the cockpit. Sailing out in.