We can ask when she recovers. Is that room next to ours available if she should need company?”“I’ll go and check. Just wait here. I’ll be back...soon.”Ten minutes or so later, he was back. He joined the ladies, and raised a thumb to give his good news: the room was available if wanted.“How are we doing, girls?” he asked.Elizabeth used her hand in a waving ripple manner. “So-so. Kathleen is gradually getting over the shock of what she has just heard, but I don’t think she should be left. Paige revealed that she had some money. We found a suitable acreage, and held nightly meetings to plan the house. Mary flatly refused a separate wing for her own use, saying that she was a member of the family.We took two trips in the new car. First, in June, we attended Ginny's marriage to Randy. We took the kids. Mary preferred to stay home. Randy's grandparents opened their home to us. My parents stayed in a motel.Everyone was especially attentive to Paige, wishing her good luck with the. By mutual agreement we swapped shifts for the odd day or twowhen one of us needed to be off on a particular day but in general it workedvery well. I still spent a lot of my off days with Uncle Joe but because Jason,the other crane operator, needed to be away on what should have been my offdays, I worked four days in a row. I then spent the first of my free days doingthings at home, so by the time I went around to his cottage again, I'd missedseeing him for five days. When I last saw him, he. He grew up in a small town that was surrounded by beautiful forests. His father and mother owned one of the few restaurants in their small town. He fondly remembered playing in the forests with his cousins, running after rabbits, picking wild strawberries. His childhood was idyllic and peaceful, as could only be gained in a small town that only had one street signal. The year he turned 13, for reasons unknown, his father decided it was time to move the family. Growing up he was never able to.