“Looking forward to the summer?” I turned my attention once again to Deedee.“Oh, yes!” She gushed. I’m going to be a lifeguard at the pool, ...y family is taking a trip to Canada, and of course baseball games,” she beamed at me.“Some girls think baseball is boring,” I said skeptically.“In the summer, baseball is everything, Jacob. In the fall, football and cheerleading are everything,” she nodded quite positively.“How come there are no cheerleaders for baseball?” I asked in jest.“You’d get too. The girl both complimented long flowing hair, cute features, and bikini perfect bodies. They displayed their assets proudly in neon, barely there string bikinis. The tips, proposals, and sometimes dirty looks from wives and girlfriends were abundant. The brunette beauties simply ignored most of it, and invariably spent a fair amount of time holding hands and giggling innocently more often than naught. When the naught did happen the women would swap stories and inevitably they would come to the. .. get through my past and find something to push me into a new beginning. Does that make sense?" Oh yes," Roger nodded. "When I came here, it wasn't my home, it was a new job and I had no one for moral support. I'm sure divorce is not the same as a death, but it seemed like it at the time." Yes. I'm sure it must have," she said sympathetically. "But it's been six years for you and you seem to have weathered it well." I've been very cautious. I guess once bitten ... twice shy." He looked at her. Which I was.We ended up in the living room, her digital camera was hooked up to the flat screen with a cable. She pointed to the couch. “Sit down.”I did, arranging fabric and folds to an approximation of what would be decent for a man in a towel and feeling anything but. The lens was pointing away from me, so I figured she wasn’t recording and sure enough, she produced a small remote and a picture came on to the screen.I tried to make sense of the image as she sat herself next to me – right.