But she was in an ecstatic fog, so we had the video evidence of her admission."Very well. Let's get some sleep, and have more adventures in the mornin...." With that, they cuddled and quickly fell asleep.I did a quick check of the recordings, and everything had worked perfectly. I copied all videos to the backup server, just in case. Ellen kissed me goodnight and went off to her bedroom, and I shut down the control centre and went to mine.SPRINGING THE TRAPI woke up early - around 6:00 - and went. “You’ll need to separate, live apart, for at least six months before I could consider it,” he says.I think he makes sport and laugh, but he is serious. He wishes for me to make my dwelling elsewhere for half of a year before we marry. Linda just shakes her head and thanks him for his time, and we leave.“What is this foolishness?” I ask when we are back in the car. “He wants us to live apart until we are married and then we will live together again?”She laughs. “I’ll tell you about it when we’re. .. well, for years. He and my dad still play golf together! My dad has Preston's law firm on retainer. It's just a family thing, Freddie." So how did it happen, that you two broke up?" He dumped me, actually," Josie said. She tried to make the statement flat and neutral, but I thought she came off sounding a little wistful. "I mean, on the surface we made this mutual decision to call it all off, but it was really Preston's doing, when you get right down to it." Just like that?... One of those. Debbie once more went through the process of tucking her thick, auburn hair behind her ears before again stretching across the desk. As she did so, I was reminded of her earlier admission, “It takes something really special to get me properly aroused, normal stuff just doesn’t really do it for me.” Perhaps corporal punishment was proving to be that something ‘really special’, something that I imagined her likely vanilla marriage had not afforded her.The cane I had selected for the final six.