Day followed day, mostly easy going at first, with a few rapids here and there, but nothing major for a couple of days. Scooter rowed the raft much of... the way, and a few times Al had each of the customers on the raft give it a try, just to give her a little break; other than the few strokes up at Lee's Ferry, he hadn't touched the oars yet. She found herself enjoying it immensely, shooting the bull with Al and the other customers, listening to him tell tales of the river, and telling some of. . He what?"This last was said with a tone of incredulity I've seldom heard matched.Then, "We'll be there as soon as we can. Call it an hour, okay?" She put the phone down very gently and turned to me. "We've got to go. The cops are holding Sarah and Donna."I stood and asked, "Why?" Because David Prentice is an asshole!" she shouted.I'd never seen her this mad; I didn't get out of the tub and start getting dressed until after she'd left the bathroom. I quickly threw on some jeans and a shirt,. But I didn't. "Have you been thinking about that?" I asked.Those clear blue eyes gazed into mine. "Yeah, I guess every girl thinks about it. Some. But I really don't know. I mean, after seeing my mom in action, the idea of parenthood..." She sighed."You are NOT your mom!" I declared. "I don't PRETEND to know what might've motivated HER, but I see you as a wholly different person." I don't wanna be, Alan," she said. "But she didn't start out like that..."I looked at the serious young lady in. ‘Honey. It wasn’t the ninth, it was the twenty-ninth – after Christmas, remember. I had just broken my engagement to that asshole, Pete. I had been drinking and whining that I was S.O.L for New Years, just like I had been for Christmas. My parents had moved south that year and I was going to be alone and right then, I thought that was what I wanted. Then I met you and you changed my whole life. Oh and it’s not twenty-five years, it’s twenty-six – we’ve been married for twenty-five years.’ Lisa.