We jog along the beach road for about half an hour before we come to a turn on the road that overlooked a more rocky part of the shoreline.Julia stops... and looks intently at a large outcropping rock that featured an abandoned lighthouse."Why are we stopping Sis?" I ask curiously."Shh," she says, indicating that what she was about to say next was very important. "I guess you should now know. You're already an adult." Know what?" I ask impatiently.Her eyes not leaving the lighthouse, she says. “You are both launching each other. I hope you are launching something together. But it’s always helpful to stay focused on making your partner look as good as possible. That’s what we do in dance, too. And you could be leading all of us into something big. Do it for yourselves, but do it for all of us.”“Thank you, Sophie,” Cindy said. “I appreciate the way you reduced our stress there.” We all laughed, but having Cindy make a joke about it was what we all needed. And I needed to be aware of. ‘Bob, you have no idea how alright I am. It just must not show right.’ Jon said with a wink in my direction. Jon came around the table and began to speak to Bob about the evening concert. Standing next to Jon as he talked to Bob, I took Jon’s hand in mine lightly and acted like I was listening intently to their conversation. Slowly I maneuvered myself in behind Jon where Bob could only see my face to the right of Jon’s shoulder. ‘Bob, that sure was one of my favorite parts of the concert when. Bryden Camlo, my gypsy lover. My heart aches for him. Will he come for me tonight? My wait has been so long, lingering out over the years that stretched into decades. Those decades now number more that six. Has it been seven?In sadness and shame, my parents took to their graves after three of those decades had passed. In all that time, my father scarcely spoke with me. His disappointment had stolen his love away. The whispers of his contemporaries about his only child were more than he could.