The fact we didn’t own a car wasn’t such a hardship, but it could get annoying. Most of everything else we needed was also within a reasonable wal...k from the house. We only got a taxi to get the weekly shopping home.The old Queenslander style house had two bedrooms upstairs. They were on one side of the lounge room. Across the back end was the kitchen, dining room, a separate loo and a bathroom with the shower over the tub. A long wide enclosed veranda ran from the kitchen to the front door on. Janis began thinking about teaming with a woman, but faltered. That would disgust the kids when they found out, especially Gina. Her oldest child was quite likely to slap any female lover around and tell her to leave, using very foul language. Janis then had the bright idea of taking a three-week cruises twice a year and working her way through the ship’s officers, only the acceptable ones of course. She called her travel agent but Margaret was away on a cruise with a girlfriend. The. ”“I make no claims that what I did was moral. I just refused to let those men threaten people I love and get away with it.” Jake looked down. “There was one other time I hurt someone.”He told her about Gil, the rock, and reform school.“I stay close to Gil. I’ve done what I could to fix the damage, but I can’t give him back the time he spent there. You can still see the shadow of it in him. Not just me. Anyone can see it. He was very dutiful even before the incident. Now he’s very serious and. I never really was involved in the LGBT community so I met all my friends at school and they all turned out to be straight, except her. Neither of us had girlfriends, but I had never really thought of her in a sexual way, though I admit she was very attractive. She did seem a bit flirty sometimes, and had a knack for talking with a cute voice.We were pretty close, in that we had known each other for a few years and knew all kinds of things about each other. She was pretty extroverted, and good.