There were ten of us, since Third Squad was down a man who was on leave. We drove down to the Bend, slowly and unsurely, but that was the job. I’d n...ver been there before, but the word was that it was kind of minimal.Minimal was putting it mildly. Bare bones was a much plainer description. It consisted of four walls made of Hesco bastions plopped right on the side of Route Indigo at the Bend. The wall was cut in only one place, where we had a turnstile set up. Since that wouldn’t stop anything,. I wasn't surprised to see Dad get out a beer and make himself a thick roast beef sandwich; at 350 lb. that was just his way of coping. He asked me if I was hungry, which I wasn't, but I took the beer he slid across the table. Neither one of us was crying or even especially sad; I think we were both just relieved that it was over, both speechless. I drank another beer, watching Dad finish off a huge bowl of vanilla ice cream drenched in chocolate syrup. He let out an enormous belch, went to the. Some evenings we would be alone and we would find out so much about each other. How she liked guys who were honest and open, and how we both loved the song “The Boys of Summer” by Don Henley. It was the small things we had in common that made our friendship grow, but it was how much we understood each other that was slowly pulling us closer together. In the spring, I kissed Shannon for the first time. I remember it like yesterday. I took the small of her back in one hand and pulled her towards. Then we decided how my husband can take part. This was very simple, from the very beginning, my husband will stay in the dark space below our large cot in the bedroom some few minutes before arrival of milkman with myself on the floor as planned, from the dark, he will be able to see entire episode from the moment milkman arrives, my acting of entire scenes, his reactions, escorting me as per plan to bed and helping me to bed.But the initial scenes on the bed like pulling me towards inside of.