. He mumbled sleepily. He got up and walked a distance away, and began to relieve himself. He had just got done shaking dry and was ready to head back...when something caught his eye near the spring. He walked over and parted the nearby bushes and found himself struck with awe as a beautifully figured woman danced a-top of the water in the creek, the water swirling around her in the most amazing way, with every graceful turn of her hands and the slow beautiful way she swayed her hips. The way the. .. but he didn't. Thefirst day of Kindergarten, I felt as though my heart was ripped from meas he stood in the very back of the school bus and bawled. He was franticand pleading me to help him.Feeling like the most terrible father on the planet, I hung my head andcried as the bus disappeared into the distance. It was like that forthree straight weeks, thankfully though through the bus driver'ssympathetic nature, the school and his teacher we were able to get beyondthe sheer terror he felt.Upon. Tom and Julie each received their rings, but there had been an expectation all around that that would happen, so it wasn’t much of a surprise to them. We were all happy to make it official.During the last week of the year, Tom closed on his ownership of the twenty-eighth floor and took possession. Alice and a team of painters immediately rolled through the entire unit. A small army of seamstresses had already prepared new curtains that promptly got installed along with some modern shades, and a. Mother had saidshe was to wear a dress that day, because company was coming, and thebell rang while she was sitting at the dressing table in her slip,trying out lipstick. She pulled a woollen robe on and answered the door."May I come in?' asked her little visitor, and her first impulse was torepulse him, but she relented and answered, 'I suppose so but you'llhave to wait in the living room. I'm not fully dressed yet.'"Can't I come upstairs with you? I won't be any trouble,' he had asked."Oh, I.