I get no time to even eat. And the stress is unbelievable, but thanks.”Thomas’s wife, Jane asked, “Carolyn. How are you going to handle being aw...ay from home two or three nights a week?”To Les, she playfully asked, “Can you get by without her?”“I guess I’ll find a way to manage,” he wondered aloud. “We are so lucky Carolyn finally remembered we had a date with you two tonight. It has totally slipped our appointments secretary’s mind.”Jane appeared to mull something over in her mind. A few miles. "Stories." "Great. I do a little writing myself, you know." She looked over at me quickly as we continued down the highway. "I'd like to see what you're writing. If I recall correctly, I'd turned you into a pretty fine writer when we were at school. You were hurling adverbs and flowery adjectives around like there was no tomorrow.” "You never know, Danny. You just might get to see some of it... soon," she said rather mysteriously. I wondered what she meant. We arrived at the restaurant, and she. We told her we thought the four of us would be going together. She surmised that that wasn't what any of us really wanted." Then she shocked the hell out of us," said Kevin. "She offered to trade one of her female draft picks for you, Dad."Now it was Karen and George who were stunned into silence. They looked between themselves, to each of the twins, and back again."There's an ancient Chinese curse," George finally said quietly, his eyes beginning to tear. "'May you have your wish.' I'm afraid. She agreed to see me at Thanksgiving, which is good, and she agreed to see a counselor which is also good. But she’s hurting pretty badly. And I’m going to have to come back here to see her.”“She’ll come to wherever you are, now that she’s talking to you again.”“You’re awfully confident.”“If you had come home and said she refused to talk to you all day, I would have said ‘give up’. But she did talk to you, and I think that’s a very good sign. So do you. And so does Dale. He and Clara hung out.