"Dan took the phone from the wizard's hand and dialed.***As both teams took the field, the pre-game hype was exactly as Dan expected. Both ESPN and CB... ran lengthy features on his record-filled career. The newspapers countered with headlines like "Is this Dan's last fling?"His wife, Claire, would surely get a chuckle out of that one.When his name was announced as part of the starting lineup, the Seahawks fans him a respectful ovation. As the murmur died down, Dan reached into his equipment bag. I had to talk to Lance at some point. Lance was no genius but he did have a helluva lot of common sense; and, he was my sounding board when I was doing my own thinking and deciding. Yes, a lunch date with Lance maybe today even.“Lee, the number of times that a guy marries is not the measure of success or failure that you think it is. The measure you’re looking for is how happy the woman makes you; and, I might add, how happy you can make your woman. I mean she counts too,” said Lance.We were. I can tell that he is about 6’5 heavier set… and to me anyways… drop dead gorgeous. I feel a tap on my shoulder, it’s Liz… ‘I’m tired of this, I’m going to go to the coffee shop up the street, meet you in an hour?’ I nod to her… He smiles, ‘So it wasn’t her idea to come here…’ I feel heat flame by face and flare in my eyes (one of the personality traits of being a natural redhead) he looks into my eyes and smiles when he sees the rage in them, ‘Hey, Kat, how’ve you been’ The blood drains from. The sound was a mix of my mother's voice and that of a porn star. The moan sounded exaggerated and playful but at the same time earnest. It froze me in my tracks for a moment.Once the alarm of the moan wore off I found myself in my parents room astonished at what I found. It was the circumstantial evidence proving what I had feared most. The dress my mom had worn that day was tossed haphazardly at the pillow of the made bed. The covers were seemingly in place but also ruffled in a way that made.
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