As he entered the lobby Richard noted that the elevator was still out oforder so he started to climb the stairs. As he reached one of the levelshe spo...ted a couple women dressed in hoodies hanging out in the stairwellsmoking. Richard looked at them before trying to shimmy past them. As hedid so one of them pinched is leather-clad behind. Richard ignored thishaving gotten used to it in the past few months that he and Linda hadlived in the building.Finally reaching his floor Richard noted the. I wanted to hold her, caress her, and kiss her. Without her I didn’t think I’d ever be whole. After talking to her the next morning I discovered she didn’t feel the same. She no longer wanted to be a wife or mother. She felt boxed in. She wanted the freedom she felt she hadn’t had since before she met me. She was moving to New York to pursue her dream of being an artist.The divorce devastated Jacy. Every night she cried herself to sleep wondering why her mom wanted nothing to do with her. For a. I still had almost all the money from my fire insurance settlement. I was really just feeling down. I was certainly not financially stressed at the time.It does explain why I was so happy to get the call from a movie company operating out of the research triangle park. “Hello,” I said to the unknown caller. “The is Ed Rogers.”“Mr Rogers, I hear you are a story researcher,” The male voice suggested.“Actually, I do all kinds of research,” I explained.“Even better,” he said.“So what can I do. I roll my eyes but go with her, knowing that she would do the same for me. We touch up our makeup in the taxi on the way and soon we are in the bar. The music is pumping and there are lots of customers in, too many for us to find a seat so we stay close to the bar and scour the place, looking for Mr Hot from last week. Debbie had spotted him looking over at her but she chickened out of talking to him. “You had better not be a pussy this week!” I tease her with a wink. “Oh! No chance!” Debbie.