" The woman said as she retrieved her shopping bags from the closet."A party?" Maria asked."I made a little trip down to that Lesbian Nightclub downto...n. It's called The Harlot. Well, I made a couple of friends there and I told them about you and I and the four of us decided to throw you a sort of coming out party."Oh." Maria said dumbly. She wasn't sure what kind of a get together her mother was planning with herself and three lesbians but the mystery intrigued her."You can say no to this and. Marriage, three kids, now grown and out on their own and a wife with suddenly nothing to do to keep her occupied.Most wives in those circumstances went out to see if they could get back into the work force or join a charitable organization and donate time. That might have been the route that Vickie would have taken if circumstances had been different.I still don't know how it happened, but I went away for a two week training session and when I got home I found that in my absence Vickie had been. If you saw what happened please come over to this end of the bar.He then turned his face over to his microphone and spoke a code into it and heard an acknowledgement and went back to Lynn. He was bigger than Bosco and to see him bending down to try and talk quietly to Lynn was almost comical.“Miss, could I have your name please?”“My name is Mrs. Lynn O’Dell.”“Pardon me. Mrs. O’Dell. Did you say that the lady over there was your wife?”“Yes. That is Mrs. Erin O’Dell and before you ask, yes that. It’s time for celebration, not time for commiseration. You’ve just been offered a fantastic job, and all you can think of is failing at the very first hurdle. Don’t you be thinking that, young lady. You will succeed. You will! You’re just like your dad, really. He’s worked hard all his life, and he has succeeded. Well, you know, not really in the same way that we would have hoped. But he’s still successful. Never been unemployed. Never. Always worked, since he was much younger than you are. And.