”“Then we can get started. Find Matthew, please.”The rest of the morning was spent with prep and a light lunch, and about 12:45pm, Kara and I wa...ked to the hospital to get Jessica, and then Birgit, Matthew, Stephanie, and I continued working on dinner. Samantha, Brian, and Benjamin arrived mid-afternoon, and our four Navy recruits arrived at 4:45, as scheduled. We had an awesome meal and everyone was disappointed when the van arrived at 7:15pm to pick up the recruits and return them to Great. The wedding will go on even if you aren’t there. I am sure that Daddy will agree with us. Too bad you won’t be there to make it a complete family group. We will miss you.”With that, Stacy grabbed me and we left. We heard that Gary told Jane that if she didn’t attend, he would not be coming back to her from the wedding. Jane reluctantly agreed to go.I discovered from that incident and others that Jane is a controlling drama queen and if things did not go her way, she would find things to. I don’t LET any of my wives do anything. What they do is up to them, as well as who they do it with, when, how, and all that. As friends and family we keep each other informed about our thinking and whereabouts, but that’s just commonsense and nice thing to do. There’s no possessiveness implied by it.”The chimes for dinner rang so people went to the tables and sat. Don, Cricket, Dave, and the others that had been talking gathered around the end of one table as the family style dinner was served. I guess the best place to start would be a little aboutmyself then on to what you really want to hear. I grewup on a farm as a only child so I had nothing but timeto myself. Dad worked and mom cleaned the typicalfamily you could say. I helped both my parents out whenthey needed, but I’ve always been a small framed girlso I could only do so much. This plays a role in thisstory so lets get to it.On are farm we had quit a few animals and always plentyof dogs. During one summer when I was 12.