He blushed and turned maroon, "I take it on hiking trails too. Hey, nice ride. French?"Grace nodded and grinned. She dinged her little finger bell."Oh..., that's cute. Italian gear set and cranks?" Campagnolo," she admitted."It's not something you could ride in the woods," he said."Where would I get something like that? With knobby tires?" I asked."You can't. I built it." Build me one?" Me too," said Grace."Well, now. I'd have to charge you ... oh ... ten dollars for a donor bike unless you can. Whoever she talked to understood and told her she did not have to come back. I called my airline and asked for a second seat back home. The lady managed to put us together on the plane. Ivy and I found ourselves just staring at each other with big grins on our faces. ‘Marry me please,’ I finally said. ‘Yes, yes, yes,’ she shouted and devoured me with her kiss. We apparently were the highlight of the breakfast room that morning. We spent the day snorkeling and kissing and caressing each others. That is just one of the countless reasons I love you to pieces andalways will. This one time, I was actually looking for something alittle more... selfish." I - well...."She turned her head away from me to stare out the window into thetwilight. Faye smiled, placed her index finger under Angie's chin,lifting her face until their eyes met."Tell her," she commanded. "I know you are thinking it. I see it inyour eyes every night, just as Donna did. Admit it; if not to us, toyourself."Faye pushed. I told her that I'd be at the bowling alley around noon and if she wanted to go down to Memphis for the day to meet me there. She said that she would and walked over to where Dee W was and I drove off and went to bed early since I was bushed. I thought my future wife also went to bed - she did but not to sleep.What my wife told me after we've been married for thirty years is that she didn't go to her room in the barracks and go to sleep. She said that she went over to where Dee W (her roommate).
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