“I know,” I replied. “I got looks from him when I said Amy was moving to Chicago with Clark and they weren’t getting married, and when I said ...omething about Clarissa and Abby.”“What about us?” Abby asked.“My dad has very conservative views on anything to do with sex or sexual orientation. He doesn’t approve of ANY of our choices, be they Paul’s, mine, yours, Clarissa’s, or Liz’s. He does approve of Elizaveta, though he gave me grief about her age.”“WE gave you grief about her age until we got. She had forgotten her mobile phone downstairs so she went downstairs in bare feet, she had red nail varnish on her toes. She walked down the steps and her feet looked sexy. As she was coming down the stairs David was walking by, he said “I’ll be up for a cup of tea in a minute Pat all right”. As she walked into the locker room David was looking at her sexy ankles and her sexy wet hair and he remembered what she told him in supervision. He found himself getting hard.Twenty minutes later he went. " Charli reached up and kissed her mom real sweet on the cheek and said. 'I love you, momma." Gloria kissed her daughter back and hugged her tight and said. 'I love you too, baby girl. Now take you little butt back to your room and have you some really sweet dreams." Charli hopped off the bed and said. 'Night, momma." Gloria smiled and said. 'Good night child."Charli didn't go to her room, she went into Helena's and slid in next to her sister and spooned in behind her. Her little pussy was on. . well..." my voice trailed off."Loneliness is an ugly state, Mark. I know that from experience. It can eat at you. I still feel it now and then." she said sympathetically."We've never been apart; even for a day. Except I guess when the kids were born and she was in the hospital. I didn't have to travel and when there were conventions, I always took Jo with me. I think that's what's making this so hard. We've never been apart." I was looking off into the distance, unfocussed and in a wistful.