......................................................................Their grandfathers, Don and Dan, would take time to 'get together' at one or ano...her's house, or sometimes at the camp or at the lake; wherever they could be alone and private and enjoy each other. Once they met at the wedding, they went off together and enjoyed each other's company on a camping trip. Then another, and another. Wives gladly took the opportunity to go on shopping trips (and, as they later found out,. My heartbeat slowly returned to normal and I started to relax to the point where I could talk intelligently. He mentioned that there was a state dinner planned for that evening and he wanted us to attend. I told him I would be honored. Little did I know what he had planned or I might have declined.We had packed no clothes suitable for a state dinner so we had some hurried shopping to take care of. We drove down to one of the malls where there were some high end clothing stores. First we went. I’m sure you nodded at me when I was telling you all this but maybe you were a little bit too distracted to really let it sink in. Would you like to go and get something on?”Keith nodded and was about to head off when Gemma’s mother jumped in with, “No, Keith. It’s OK. You don’t need to put any clothes on. Normally we would wait until after dinner to all get naked and start ‘having some fun’ but well ... it is a hot day ... so maybe we can all get naked a bit sooner than that. Just let me. ‘Hello.’ ‘Hi,’ I said. I can picture his face on the other side of the phone line. ‘It has been a long time. How have you been?’ ‘I’ve been good. I have just been incredibly busy.’ ‘What you have been up to the last ten years? ‘Let’s see. After I finished high school I went to college and studied education.’ ‘So you are a teacher that’s great. What do you teach?’ ‘No I am not a teacher.’ ‘Why not?’ ‘To make a long story short I let one jackass crush a dream I had since I was ten years old.’.