So Jennifer was going to be staying with Mum throughout the festivities, while Miles and Bernie’s families were determined to rough it out at Dad’... for the two nights.All those arrangements were still to be confirmed and Jen needed to work through the next three and a half weeks of sales calls before that fateful day dawned of Christmas shared with all her family.Honestly, she thought, anything could happen before then, and I might not have to go through with the whole nightmarish. I couldn’t wait to get home and have a bath. I was filthy dirty and it was gross. But I gotta admit, after I started working there, the store took on a new symmetry. It looked cleaner, tidier, brighter and airy. Customers would comment on how easier it was to find groceries. This of course impressed Alfred.I start to pull down the next section of the same aisle and while I’m taking down canned beans at the second shelf from the top I find an old yellowed cellophane package of nude pantyhose. .." 'Course nobody'll match up but you'll find someone who means a lot to you in different ways and she'll fill the gap. 'Cos there is a gap. I can see the difference from when your wife was alive and 'ow you are now." Well, there's bound to be a difference when you've lost someone you love deeply and who is part of you." Part of you? Part of you? You two were like bloody vines an' I envy you. I could ask either of you a question, unless it was something particular to do with the cleaning, and. .. but...”“It’s okay, we’ve slept outside naked quite a few times. There’s a tall privacy fence, so no one can see us.”Civia looked from side to side a couple times, then looked at Heather and asked, “Really? You’re not putting me on?”“Nope. This will be our ... fourth night? Fifth night, Rhee?”“Fourth, I think.”As she had already dropped her end of the mattress, Civia tentatively stepped past the mattress up to me and looked around the back yard. The sun would still be up for another hour or.