I brushed my hair and we were ready to go. She then asked me if I would like to take Annie with us, and maybe have her stay over tonight, as it was Fr...day night. I jumped at the chance and said I would love that Mom. She said OK, wait, I will call her mom and fix it for you. So she did. We went over to pick up Annie and she brought a little satchel with her extra clothes. Then Mom said, I have a surprise for you. I said what is it now? She said Annie is not going home until Sunday night. I gave. As we had plenty of time left to that, Nilla asked me if it was okay if we took the first step for clearing out our relation. It was okay with me and she gave me a sheet of paper with an envelope and asked me write down honest replies to the questions printed on the paper.It was a very simple game because the first question read: "It is obvious that we have some serious problems in our marriage. What do you suggest for solving them?"I wrote, "Find a way back to a happy family again. I'm sure we. I can look forward to an announcement by tomorrow evening?"There he had me, "Well, I don't know about that. And anyway, Molly should be the first to know, don't you think?"He smiled and gave way diplomatically, "Of course. Sorry. Come on, let's walk back. We'll have the wind on our backs this time."Damn fucking clever brothers! I pride myself that I'm self-assured, quick on my feet, and that I understand myself and other people. I don't actually know whether any of that is true, but I like to. Eventually it was time to leave. It'd take us about an hour to drive home, dropping off Sarah on the way. I actually thought she'd changed her mind because she didn't mention the broken tap until we stopped at her house. Then she said, "Oh, I meant to ask you earlier Jack, do you think you could look at a leaking tap that I've got? Any time there's no urgency."I looked at my wife and asked her when she'd be going out the next day and she said about 10:30am. "Well Jane could drop me off here.