Are you the owner?"I wrote out the permission slip for him before I answered him."Yes, I own all of this and quite a bit more. I also am a law officer... I hope you and your dad enjoy fishing here, and don't catch them all before I get a chance to do some fishing myself." You don't have to worry about that, Mister. It only takes two of them to feed us since they are all so big. That first pond has some huge catfish in it. We caught one last year that weighed over thirty pounds. We had him for. "Dave didn't tell you?" Lori, mouth agape, said."Tell us what?" the others came back with, almost as one."Well, since both my parents are out the country, they insisted thatfor me to stay here with Lori, I had to get a summer job. Lori's momtold my parents that she'd watch over me this summer. To keep me out oftrouble, I guess." Dave confessed."What's your job?" asked Pete."Doing a little of everything, I guess. Cleaning up, moving equipment.You know, grunt work. I start later today." Where is. Darnit, you know what I mean. You never fail to satisfy me — never.” After a moment, she continued, “Baby, are we going to have this conversation every time I misspeak? I love you, and I’m so glad you took me back. I will never do anything like that again — never.”He reached over and touched her cheek. “I suppose it’s my ego, or lack thereof, speaking. Sorry. The words were out of my mouth before I could stop them. Shall we go take that bath so I can admire that great bod of yours?”A few. It was just my swimming that sucked. I tried. I really tried. But it just seemed the harder I tried, the faster he went. It was as if my energy was affecting his speed, not mine. I lost by 3.2 seconds. The next closest person was over 5 seconds back, but that didn't help any.I'd had enough. I had my shot at love and I blew it. No reason to obsess on it any further. Time to realize Jill was gone and get on with my life.The pats on the back and "You'll get 'em next time"s were fewer and a lot.