We had invited a few friends from her job, and a few close friends that we had known for years. The party started off well. I was having my fourth gla...s of wine when a deep/ masculine voice interrupted.“Hello, you must be James. I’m Paul,” he said with an outstretched hand.I was speechless. Paul was a name that I had been hearing for the past month. My wife hated him, or at least I was made to believe so. Malinda told me about this new guy named Paul, who took two of her major ideas and. John?s classroom knowing I was in trouble because he always said that if youcan?t get to class on time that you would stay after class. As I entered hesaid to me well it looks like I?m going to have company after school and sissyboy we are going to get acquainted. If you didn?t finish your homework it willbe real fun for you, now put your books down at your desk and bring me thehomework I assigned you yesterday. I did and went to shuffling though the loosepapers and I couldn?t find it I looked. Mom noticed and said, “I thought you liked meatloaf.”“Sorry, Mom, not really.” Maybe if it’s made with brown gravy it’s alright, but Mom’s recipe called for it to be made with tomato sauce.“But you loved meatloaf when your grandmother made it!” she wailed.I buried my face in my hands and then gave her a sheepish look. “I hated her meatloaf, too. I was just being nice to your mother.” Dad groaned at this, and Suzie giggled. Mom simply gave an outraged, ‘Hmmphh!’The really bad part was when the. Part of that clause,when it was exercised, required all participants to respond formallywithin 120 days of a legal request for action should an action bewarranted. That action, as a challenge for control of the house, hadbeen taken officially on Wednesday by Harold the step father.It wasn't the house that their father wanted, but the land. His plan,and right now it was viable, was to move the house to another site,since it was historical, and develop the land it now sat on. That landwas.