He rejected all appeals by his staff to seek a truce with Stalin. Both armies were being bled white. Only Hitler's problem was he had no more replacem...nts while Stalin kept throwing fresh troops at him. Goebbels promised the German people that their leader would come up with new miracle weapons which would bring the Allies to their knees.Gwyn was ill. Ian had to do all the outside work while Armes tried to take care of her bed ridden husband. Carol did all the housework. Gwyn talked to a cousin. You knows that." Momma," Lisa said, as she held the big lady, "You told me several times lately that you're just not making enough to even buy the girls clothes lately. You told me you were going to Goodwill to get their clothes."The big lady hung her head and I could see a big tear run down her face."Momma, it's time I looked after you. I want you to live in lots of luxury, I want you to enjoy your days, and I want you around when I have my own baby to raise. Please, Momma, let me take care of. However whereas a lot of couples actually turn this into really, for me it has never been an option. Sara would NEVER, and I mean never, contemplate such a ‘perversion’, I know, I have brought it up in conversation in a way that always sounded like I meant it as an idea for others and certainly not us. Her reaction was always one of disgust, and believe me those stories of wives secretly wanting it to happen, or going from shy wife to slut wife in the process is absolutely not Sara, so forget. Well maybe you don't know, but suffice to say there's plenty of such options around these parts.I finally settled on a woman named Lucy whose ad was in our local paper. It read: 'Lovely sensualist offering marvelous two hour escape'. I liked the two hour part especially, plus she'd had an incredibly erotic phone voice. Anyway I followed her directions, parked, and was pushing the doorbell on her little house in the hills right at the time we'd agreed on.The patter of footsteps ended as the door.