No matter what. I promise," I heard her whisper to him. Then she tightened her hug again, and slowly Gary returned the embrace. After a few seconds, h... seemed to straighten and relax, and then Saralinda drew back. Gary was standing now, and his shoulders lost their rigid set, at least a little.I watched all of this with confusion. I knew Joanne's departure was hard on Gary, but this seemed different. It felt like something else was going on. Something to do with Kate, maybe. My eyes flicked. Things with me and my s*s have just the same as they have been, keep it normal when we're around our parents and when we're by ourselves we fuck like rabbits. Anyway lately it’s been the same old same old, but recently it’s gotten much hotter, and I realized we had a pool and Jacuzzi in our housing complex that no one ever uses and is secluded from all the houses and from people being able to see in.I was just sitting on the couch watching TV and looking at porn on my iPhone, mom was at work. I said, “Ed, there is a hog on our left at about 10 o’clock. Do you know what that means?”“Yeah, I see it now.”“Good, that is your hog. I’ll pull closer after Jo shoots. Wait until we stop before you shoot. And don’t forget to put your window down before you pull the trigger.” We all laughed at that.Jo knocked down her hog, and I drove closer to Ed’s hog. I stopped about 30 yards away from the hog and told Ed to shoot as soon as he was ready. He fired and hit his hog exactly in the center of. "I love to run the bases! I don't want to just be a big slug who hits the long ball." Chicks dig the long ball," Alice said.I was surprised that she had ever heard that old baseball cliché, and even more surprised that she would repeat it."Maybe 'chicks' dig the long ball," I told her, "but real women dig guys who can leg out a three-bagger!" Orlie Warren was just as great as you said she was," Alice said, suddenly changing the subject. "And her daughter, Maria, invited us back to her house.