After the two couples had showered and dressed, they went into the kitchen where they found Joey, Alicia, and Rachel eating brunch. The two couples sa... down and ate. After they all finished with brunch, Joey got them in the living room.“From now own, Fritz and Alvin, you are going to be good friends and share your wives. On Saturdays and Saturday nights, you two will swap wives, and neither one of you are getting a divorce, for now anyway,” Joey told the two husbands.“I will do as you wish,”. The wedding was a spectacular success, and my parents even drove up from Arizona to attend. They held the reception at The Seven Seas Restaurant over in Mandan, and Beej informed me later it had cost a bundle.In early June of '97, Charli and I were sitting on the couch sipping wine and celebrating the end of my schooling when we heard brakes squeal to a stop in front of the house. It was about five-thirty or six I think, and the sky was still bright with sunlight. The window was open in the. There was always change and wads of cash in a bulk sized pickle jar on her father’s nightstand with a handwritten label taped over it that read, “Alice’s College Fund”. Ironic, Alice was stealing from her own future...Just as Alice finished unscrewing the lid to the pickle jar and reaching her hand in, the front creaked open and sounds of her mother giggling echoed through the single story house. “Fuck,” Alice swore under her breath as she quickly dropped the cash in her hand and screwed the. I . . .I understand the position you’re in. I’d have done the same things if I was in your shoes, and we both know it. Besides, I’m doin’ all right. I came out, by the way. To my mom.’ ‘Really? What did she say?’ Isabel’s curiosity was piqued. ‘She freaked a bit, but she suspected for a while. I think she’s suspected since . . .’ Janine looked at her feet. She didn’t want to bring up those wonderful weeks at rich-girl camp they had spent together when they were teenagers. ‘You’re braver than I.