The nap had done wonders for me and Ifelt a lot better.In no time, I was wearing a white tee shirt, a pair of Capri pants andpink fluffy slippers, dri...king a glass of milk in the kitchen with thefamily and getting anxious again, just like last time. I had visions ofsomeone like Jackson and I must admit that I was not looking forward tothe coming meeting.Mrs Bright must have seen me looking worried and said, "Don't worry,Phillipa is a sweetie and anyway, I will be with you when you meet her.Half. She wonders idly if Aidan’s wife will remember to walk his beloved wolfhound, and decides that the dog might be more insistent about peeing than her children might be about their education. And anyway, it’s been three months since she got to wake up beside Aidan, and that time, her husband was in bed with them, so it wasn’t quite the same. And the time before that he didn’t get to stay over, so it’s really been a year since she had Aidan all to herself for a night. Lia smiles and sighs and. Things stayed like that thereafter. She was always apologetic and made few meetings we did have as much about me as possible.It was Thanksgiving of year six that I caught a break. The prisons were too full. The governor was releasing inmates not considered a threat to the community. I was paroled. It was so sudden that I had had no time to even inform Marci. But, I decided that I wanted it that way. I would surprise her.The warden literally kicked me out two days before thanksgiving. I'd be. .. he’s like his dad. He’s a tough guy. He doesn’t cry or complain. When I got there, he was a wreck. Lucas was better but I could see that he was scared. I told them that you were OK. That you were hurt but you were going to be just fine in a little while. The next couple of weeks weren’t easy for them. Both of them are scared that they might do something to hurt their Uncle Travis.”I looked back over my shoulder. Liz was on the floor with the three kids wrestling with them and tickling.