Sitting alone with my foot in plaster and my life in ruins. “Hi, Anna.” “Penny! How nice to see you!” My old friend from school. She lived ...earby, but I hadn’t seen her for a couple of weeks. “What are you doing here?” I asked her. “I just bumped into Philip. He said you were here. I must say he seemed a little distracted. What have you done?” “What do you mean, what have I done?” She indicated my foot. “Ah, that. I slipped at the station last night and broke my ankle.” Penny nodded in. ’ she whispered. ‘Oh Laura,’ Jessie whispered. ‘He’s coming here, Jess.’ ‘After all these years? What does he want? He can’t expect a family just waiting for him? Jessie pondered aloud. ‘You think that’s what he wants Jess? I don’t know. He was the one who left. Maybe he wants to get to know Chad? Oh God Jess What if he wants to take my baby away from me?’ her voice raising several octaves. ‘We won’t let him. This family won’t let him,’ Jessie vowed. ‘Jess you and I both work and Mrs. Smythe. During that flight, she favored me with the distinct privilege of fingering her pussy to orgasm. Afterward, we had dinner and then retired to my hotel room for a night of exhibitionist sex. Our viewers were a couple of coeds whose room had a window not twenty feet from my hotel window. At the end of the night, Joan and I agreed to keep in touch via text messages on our phones. She knew that I was in town every Sunday night through Thursday afternoon and I knew that she lived in or near. ‘I wanted to mention this to my brother several times now, but he comes so seldom that I have always forgotten them, just happy to see him again. I think that they were written by a past sweetheart of his. I haven’t opened a single one in all of this time. First, the return addresses and stamps showed that they came from England, of all places and then, after a short delay, they began again, but from Trinidad. I had to look in a book to remind myself where it was. I learned about it in school,.