She and Mark had been swinging a few years now. Friends from college moved close by and introduced them to the scene. They were not wild and crazy in ...heir antics but Tara was the more adventurous of the two. She appreciated that Mark was totally into the whole scene as long as she was. This trip was different and she was apprehensive. She wouldn't know anyone and Tara was worried she was that, at thirty-seven, she might be too old to attract the younger guys or couples that would be here. So. Destiny’s Child. Spice Girls. NSYNC.”“Each to his or her own,” Eddie chuckled.“And you are?” the raven haired woman asked.“Joe Solomon.”“The writer?”“Guilty as charged.”“I love your books! But you haven’t written any for a while.”“I’m actually working on one. I’ve been writing plays and some poetry.”“Why not more novels? The Caribbean trilogy was your last wasn’t it? And they were huge best sellers.”“Maybe that’s why. How could I top them?”“I guess that makes sense. Not really. You’re so good. The entire process was pretty familiar to me.“Army?” I asked the old man.“Confederate. You got a problem with that?”“Nope, my brother here was a Captain in your sides cavalry.”“Well then, in that case, I guess I’ll try to save him,” the doc grumbled.The doc struck me as being a mean old cuss but having seen men wounded and how the good, competent docs had treated them, I could tell this doc was a good one. In no time at all the doc had the wound wrapped and he began barking out orders.“You men,. The fact that Paige declared herself my girlfriend and was such a good friend to Becca sealed the deal for me.In a word, “yes,” as I told them, “I feel various forms of affection for each of you, for different reasons and in your own unique, personal ways.”Every last lady in the apartment walked right up to me, except for Becca, who was already on my lap. Every last one of them had tears in their eyes. This was an emotional watershed for each of us now. For a moment, at least, we were past fun.