One night she was staying over at my house with my daughter, Angie,who was the same age and went to the same school.During the evening, Angie had a ph...ne call which she went to her room to take, leaving Lucy with me in the lounge, sitting in one of the large arm chairs,and it was then that I noticed she was still wearing her school uniform of grey pleated skirt, white blouse and white knee-hi socks.We talked about things in general then I got around to boy-friends and she admitted she had one. He was as subtle about it as an elephant farting: even a dolt like you will be able to do it."You do realise now, Wilbur, don't you, why Alfred and I had some initial problems working together? And he had the cheek to accuse me of a lack of social graces!" Yeah, the pot calling the kettle black, I know. I had to listen to Alfred complaining about you all the time. The two of you together are so hilarious it is going to kill me."No sympathy to be found there. So we just sat together contentedly. When with hubby, only family was allowed into my mind and Edward was blocked as if a nonentity. Edward leaped into life only when we were together but was allowed to creep into swing shift musing.To keep them segregated and avoid overlap mishaps, I internalized separate endearment tags for myself and them. I nixed Edward’s attempted naming me Sunshine, a term hubby occasionally used. He settled on Sweetie Pie. Hubby had his Sunshine but typically kept it short and referred to me as Hon. I used. When I bought a commercial building and used part for my office, I took Jean to look for and buy office furniture. We were able to furnish a beautiful office setting.The first morning that we went to work, I sat Jean down in a chair, kneeled in front of her and told her that I was completely in love with her and that I was asking for her hand in marriage. She burst into tears and pulled me into her arms. I promised her that we would be legally married at the place of her choice from among the.