What alternative?" Trust me, there are some things Erin that..." Yeah, I've heard that before. Remember the conversation outside your bedroom door, th... night I mistook you for a trespasser?" "That was a bad night," Beth admitted and giggled at the memory."You know something, I meant to ask you... Why were you only half-dressed?" Erin scrutinized her sister's face with a serious look."Um... don't laugh at me, OK?" Erin lightened up and agreed with a nod of her head."Uh. I tried to pee standing. "Come in," Erin said at the front door.She guided me into the living room, so any fleeting thought that I was finally having sex with her again was vanquished.I sat on one end of the couch and she sat on the other end. This didn't look good."Did I do something wrong?" I asked."Not at all, Andy!" she said, smiling. "I love you. I hope you know that. I will always love you."I sat silently. There had to be a "but". Something was going on?"It's just that..." she said and stopped."Just say it," I. I told the transit Captain, that I would reach him by radio when he got close to Florida to set up a time to see the boat.I was on my way home to South Carolina and was getting my discharge from the Navy. It had always been my goal to buy a large sail boat to sail and live on. She had the lines and everything about her was just what I had been looking for. I needed to get more specific details on her construction and systems, to see what if anything I would have to change. We made good time to. I had the ring in my pocket and had intended to propose that night. I just looked at her for several very long seconds and then I said:"I hope you have a nice time" and I took the ring box out of my pocket, opened it, looked at the ring and then said, "I guess I'll return this tomorrow."I got up from where I had been sitting and walked away from her as she cried:"Wait Rob, wait."She called me two or three times a day for the next two weeks, but I never took her calls and eventually she stopped.