Alice and Jeremy shared a black canvas bag with a change of clothes and a bunch of cash from the fee for locating the blood diamonds. My bag was almos... identical, except mine did not have any men's clothes, so I had more of my own clothes.Alice and I threw both backpacks into the trunk of Jeremy's large comfortable Mercedes Sedan. He drove to Church Camp with hardly a word. He did say, "Their timing couldn't have been worse. The open house is this Weekend. I have the Realtor handling it." It. Four days later Debbie surprisingly suggested we go to Happy Hour at the Acey-Duecy Club. Naively I failed to consider how much attention two unescorted, attractive women would attract in a club full of senior petty officers.While I habitually ignored lecherous sailor's hitting one me, I admired the much more experienced Debbie fending off many sailor's overtures. Much to my chagrin Debbie outwardly seemed unruffled by flirtatious black sailors hitting on us at our table. Upon realizing my. I hated women's dress uniforms.The guys carried me back to the base where I had another meeting scheduled with Drs Rich and Moore. We talked three hours about everything, how I felt, my expectations, what I was going to do. They were amazed at how relaxed I looked. If they only knew!They were interested if I was going to re-enlist. I said, "No, not even if I got another promotion." I had been in the sandbox too long. We will always be at war in the sandbox. They agreed and gave me a list of. ”“Well, let’s go then, after all, it’s your money I‘m spending. “ They walked over to his car, he helped her in, and they drove off towards his apartment.He escorted her from the car into his apartment, not saying a word until they walked through the door. He pointed to the couch, “Have a seat on the sofa, please. I will pour us a couple of drinks if you want.” He hoped she would not notice how much he was quivering. He could not believe it, he not only found his fantasy woman, but she was.