I don’t need the military. I don’t need anything, actually. What I want, I’ll work for. I’ll check into the VA hospital where you all live. I ...ave a commitment I need to meet, timewise, but I can ... Forget it. We’ll figure something out. I’m not staying on active duty until retirement. Doctors rarely do. Maybe the reserves. We’ll talk about it later. Just love me, let me love you, and between you, Linda, Tressa and me, we’ll work it out.” She hugged me, kissed my cheek, asked if I needed any. So I told her that it’s called passing the smoke where she would smoke the hookah and pass the smoke to me and I would blow it out…….To my surprise she got ready to play the game and it started…..At first I was a little scared to go near her but deep inside I wanted to kiss her rosy lips…..Then I build up some courage and while passing the smoke placed a kiss on her lips…..She suddenly got back and said what was I trying to do…I said sorry and slipped back to my corner…..And to my surprise she. Maybe I'm making it a bigger deal than it is." You're saying, just act natural about it, and not acknowledge we're a little out of line?" Something like that," he shrugged. "Maybe it's just the conservative Bradford kid in me that makes me want to cover it up." That's not how you sounded the last time we talked about telling the boys about us," she smirked."So, that was before we got caught this morning," he smiled ruefully as he buttoned up the flannel shirt he'd decided to wear. Julie would. But the day calls, unfortunately.I walk across my empty bedroom to my not-so-empty closet. One dress inparticular calls to me. It's blue and green, like the deepest cornersof a lake. But no, this is more casual, not something for work. I geta little tingling, like a message from myself saying this dress isspecial. I found it while I was swimming.No. That was just the dream I'd had last night. Is swimming arecurring dream for me? I seem to recall dreaming about that lakebefore. And I've.