But what she had done to me was painful and humiliating. It wasn't just one night or two that I've cried myself to sleep.One evening when, as usual, I...was alone at home, there was a knock on the door. It was Joyce, Mary's friend and partner. I told her Mary was out to which she replied:"I know she is out, and I know where and with whom. George, listen. She got into the lifestyle by mistake, but now she can't stop it. She is devastated by your reaction because it's clear to her that she is. She had pulled her hair back from her face but left it loose down her back. The engagement ring couldn't have matched more perfectly if she had seen it already.I glanced at Beth and she smile innocently back. I looked at Missy. She was waiting for some kind of response. I could only think of two and I didn't want to pop the question in front of her father. So I kissed her. Something changes when you're kissing the woman you know will be the mother of your children. I wanted to blow off the rest. The grocery store delivered three turkeys and forty pounds of turkey wings and Gwen brought Bill! Gwen and Blossom put me to work cutting the wings into two piles of parts. One pile was the drums and the flats, and the other pile was the tips.Blossom said that the tips would be used for soup and that her mom’s recipe for turkey vegetable soup was the best soup she ever had, and they were going make a few gallons and freeze it so we could save it for the few really cold winter days we had here. Until he actually had to study that shit. It was difficult material, stuff that he was not particularly interested in, and stuff that he now suspected for which his mind wasn’t properly equipped. And he hadn’t even gotten into the real engineering courses yet, he’d only had a few introductory and prerequisite courses. He was more of a right-brain kind of guy. He’d rather be playing his guitar.His father was a big wheel in the oil business, and had always pushed Daniel in that direction. Dad had.