.”Mara shook her head vigorously. “No. Just go.”“Glen’s off with some boys he met the day before yesterday, and I doubt he’ll be back befo...re nightfall. We’ll have the radio. Just call if you need us. I love you.”“I love you,” Mara responded, feeling the sting of spurning her mother’s desire to help, and Wade’s friendship in the space of so few words.It was the latter that eventually wormed its way into her consciousness, making her feel ashamed. Her half-formed plan of avoiding him for the. Tow it behind the boat!”“Oh. Yeah!”“I’ll find that list of parts and bring it to you,” said Jerry.After that, Uncle Dave sent me off to my job with the idiot stick. After lunch I’d be stacking pallets.Tuesday morning Jerry Wertheimer brought me a Xeroxed schematic of a floating pontoon dock that had been copied out of some magazine. I didn’t know which, though, since that had been cut off at the bottom. In any case, it showed a plan to make a six-by-eight-foot platform out of pressure-treated. I am just an ordinary average everyday old guy. My wife died a few years ago and I have not been laid since. I do look at a lot of porn. I do have a large house and I rent out room to the college k**s. It is nice to have the young adults around. I am very selective who I let move in and they usually stay for several years. One of the new ones, her name is Abby, just moved in. Her parents were very nice. Abby got all settled in. She just finished high school and came to the college on a. He had even stooped low enough to beat her a few times during the course of his drunkenness. The police had been called, and he had been taken away in handcuffs, only to return the following morning to beg her forgiveness.It finally came to an end one night when Jan had a semi-blackout, and painted the word 'slut' on her face with red nail polish. The kids saw this, and went screaming to their dad, who tried his best to clean the awful mess while tears streamed down her face. The next day, he.