The drive home was long and tiring, as I walked in the house I was surprised 2 see the living room light was still on (My wife never stays up late dur...ing the week)I walked towards the living room and started 2 make out a slight moaning sound, curiously I peered around the door and noticed both of my wifes legs dangling over both arms of the arm chair, as I could only see the back of the chair and the 2 amazing long legs of my wife I naturally assumed she was just giving herself some relife. I don't mean a little nip, I mean a "let's take a chunk of meat out of this human" type bite.Jericho was the biggest and meanest of the mules and one morning as I was brushing him down he nipped me hard enough to draw blood. It could have been worse but I saw his head move toward me out of the corner of my eye and jerked my arm away. I wrapped a bandanna around my arm and continued the brushing. Jericho must have still been hungry because he tried to bite me again.This time I was ready. I hit. Dad said something about not being sure and needing to do tests but it was hard to hear with all the fireworks going whiz-bang-boom between my ears.He was saying words, but they didn’t make much sense.Liz licked her lips and squeezed my hand. She looked earnestly at Dad.It was like there was an orchestra playing in the background. I could almost hear all the string instruments playing a long, long note forming some strange, unfinished chord that built this incredible tension.“The thing that Bec. I knew then that he should not be doing these things with me, but he always tried to be important in our family as father was. I was ordered to his bedroll almost every night - and loved him as I did our father."My stomach clenched and I thought I would vomit my supper - what I was hearing was a completely new perspective to my mother's family. My uncle who still lived in China was a gristle old man now - but he had outlived two wives and had two sons, not even counting the daughters - some of.