’ ‘Where’s your Mom, Carol?’ ‘She’s outside, but I don’t want to, I can’t talk about her.’ Carol cried. ‘Daddy is in room 8136, ca... you and Uncle Ben come here? I need you Uncle Mark.’ ‘I’m on my way Carol, Ben is out of the country, but I’m on my way. I love you, we will make everything all right. If you need me, before I get there, call my cell phone. Bye Carol, hang on, I’m coming.’ ‘Bye Uncle Mark.’ Mark hurriedly put on his clothes. Before heading to the door, he grabbed the household. As you know, she has been cancer free since her surgery 8 years ago, but it came back. She’s not hopeful this time. Cathy knows that her mother has not been feeling well, they still do the Google video with the grandchildren each week. But no one up here, except us, knows the extent.’ I remember what we went through when she found a lump so long ago. The stress to her, Cathy and I was almost overwhelming. I lost my job during that time, and I kept everyone going by raiding my 401K and selling. .. oh shit!"She actually blushed, but her eyes were sparkling and I returned her kiss,"Where are the girls?" Still in bed" she answered, "I just looked in on them and they were, er, shall we say busy?" We hardly spoke this morning" I said, "What about you two?"She laughed bitterly, "Hell we just didn't speak, period" I'm sorry"She made us a coffee and we took it out onto the patio to enjoy the hot sun,"I think before we go any further Paul, I should tell you a few things about myself, about us". A small choking sound and a lewd sort of whimper – the kind of whimper a woman made when she trembled inside with desire and her muscles clenched on nothing.“The website had lots of very detailed, very useful illustrations of how to… handle a woman.” His voice lowered so far you almost didn’t catch his next words. “And some nice pointers on what else you can do while you’re at it.”Her gasp was high and brittle, followed by an explosive, trembling exhale and a keening sound unlike any you had.