"Stanley Thompson took a sip of his cider, nodded his head in an approving manner and said, "Not bad at all, I have to say that that is not bad at all... I think I will definitely be staying for that second half pint." Daddy," said Caroline, "can I ask you something?" Anything sweetheart, you know that."Caroline asked the question that had been bothering her for quite a while now. "We were struggling to pay the rent and the bills, you told us that. So how come all of a sudden we could afford to. They only ever had the one c***d ( the result of that unplanned pregnancy ) but got on financially as my sister got quite a good job working for a government department. Once their son was grown up and was with a partner and c***d of his own they bought a cottage up in the Yorkshire Dales and set about renovating it. They were now about 75 to 80 miles away from me and our contact got even less.In the late 1990's we all attended a meal for our parents' 50th Wedding anniversary and for the first. I finally asked after a while, the house just felt too quiet. But when I turned around I was talking to thin air. He must have gone up stairs to drop off my bags, with that in mind I went and sat down on the couch. "Oh Lex, your mom must have not got the message, I was a little surprised to see you; long story short you were supposed to come tomorrow cause everyone else is out of town". He said nonchalantly leaning against the banister staring at me. "Um, well I could call my mom to pick me. 'Families' is the proper term. Despite horror stories about concubines being recycled into meatloaf at the snack bar and various 'you can kill 'em as long as you don't make a mess' lectures, the bottom line was that concubines are SUPPOSED to be your good right arm -- and need to be treated as such. There are plenty of ways to handle personality conflicts between yourself and your concubine short of turning her into glop -- you can get glop anywhere. You can paddle her ass or whatever, or if.