She looked like she was on the verge of heart stroke.I invited her to the kitchen and offered her some ice water, hoping to avert any sickness. She ac...cepted the water and sat at the breakfast bar on one of the stools. It was hard not to notice her long legs and imagine what she may look like if she was not working.As we talked I found out that I was her last customer of the day, that her water cooler had fallen off the truck at an earlier job and had worked several hours without water. I became. "I can." Good deal," agreed Elise. She didn't tell Amanda the story about herown father who had gotten "potted and planted" all in one day becausehe tried to pass a slow moving lumber truck on a curve. In herexperience, talking about drinking or drunks with a drinking person wasa sure way to encourage the desire for a drink. She suspected her farehad just gotten out of detox; she's got the look of a drunk, somethingabout the eyes, Elise thought.They didn't say anything else much going north up. I’ll be watching to see how good a husband you are.’ ‘You’re welcome to watch.’ The wedding wasn’t very big. Most of my friends from before I joined the military had moved away and we had lost touch. Marie was not the most popular girl in town. She was quiet, shy and seemed to blend in rather than stick out. Three days after the wedding we relocated to my new duty station, a thousand miles away from Momma. Momma didn’t like that. I thought things went pretty well for us. I got promoted three. Over all a classical decoration theme keeps the feel of the house somber, but Mellisa has added paintings and works of art reflecting her own pleasures, statues of fairies and dragons, paintings with dragons and unicorns.Her third year of school has only just begun. She's had three weeks to meet her classmates and teachers as she learns her schedule and they've just finished reviewing the material that was covered last year. Mellisa doesn't care much for her new Professor teaching ancient.