To my shame, janice slid a hand over his neck and kissed him back. After what seemed like minutes, they ended the kiss.“i thought you would see thin...s my way,” jackie chuckled. “i knew you would be one of those bitches that liked it rough. I will be calling you to set something up.”“i certainly don’t want harry to lose his job,” agreed janice. “he would be devastated and the kids are going to be in college in a few years.”Jackie laughed again as they left the coatroom. I was emotionally. "She's adorable, just not what I expected at all," Joe's mother Maria said."I agree Maria, totally. Judith, would you, Carroll, and Maria join me in the powder room," Jean asked or rather commanded.I stood just as all the ladies at the table stood en masse. That powder room was going to be very crowded I thought. We all walked together, but Phyllis and I held firmly onto Carroll, as I feared she was about to run for her life. I saw that wide-eyed frightened look before and I was not about to. Dreading what's coming she hangs the phone on its perch and resolutely dials the number.An hour later a female detective arrives and the frustration mounts as she is asked, "Did you touch the envelopes. Well it doesn't matter, getting prints off of paper is iffy at best. The paper is common and will be impossible to trace."Then after the detective reads all the letters she voices another disturbing thing, "Well the writer doesn't threaten or try to intimidate you. And, well is there anything. It meant the end of my dreams, so I hung on hoping that you'd get tired or I'd be able to keep going for as long you did. After two hours it was obvious that neither of those was going to happen. I was worn out and you looked as fresh as a daisy. -- "I'm very ashamed that rather than acknowledging your superiority, I clung to a tiny shred of unrealistic hope. I refused to ask you to stop. I stupidly thought that if I never gave up, then you'd eventually have to. It took me hours to realize how.