I even got my brother and Claire a ticket to fly back for the night to join, Melissa making all the arrangements and who would join us along with Davi.... Even though Melissa was pregnant, that did not stop her from trying hard to get things sorted for me. She said she had become a little bored with work. She had designed enough clothes for the next season and business ran smoothly without us. Therefore, I suggested she open a shop in Chicago, to expand the business. David was a freelance so he. That could have been me.”In the final block leading to the entrance, they had three more people come up to them and ask for pictures. After checking their tickets, the girls entered the convention center. They had just cleared the doors when a man in an official-looking polo shirt, khakis, and a badge around his neck approached them.“Hi Ladies, I’m Michael one of the convention ambassadors, welcome to the Springfield Comic-Con. Have you registered for the costume contest? You two look great and. The words on the page were derived more from reality and less from fantasy than anything she’d written in college. The evenings had been spent discussing books, movies, philosophy, religion, or anything that happened to catch their interest in the local newspaper. More than once, she’d caught herself thinking that this was how she had always hoped her marriage would be – a couple sharing their thoughts and even more importantly, their time together. Granted, it took a man with a gun who locked. I said, "You have got to be k**ding." Her answer was, "I am yours to do as you wish, until you leave to go home. Why don't you unwrap your gift? Don't worry about Sally, she knows about it."Now I was shocked. "Sally knows that you are giving me your body as a gift? I asked."Yes, she is the one who suggested it."Needless to say, I was very surprised, but not one to look a gift horse in the mouth, I walked over to her and took the tag from around her neck, and then just stood there looking at.