Now that Tank was gone I was the last one still alive. Forty years since we came back and four funerals. I’d been at every one. Charlotte, my wife, ...had gone to the first funeral. She hated it and never went to any of the others. Near home I always listened to the Oldies station on the radio. As I drove east I had the truck radio on that same station. Every fifteen minutes they gave the trucker’s weather report. When I was seventy miles from home it started snowing. No biggy, I thought. It was. She said “I live cheap, work nights, no time for dates”. She thought she would test him saying “you spend more on a date than I make in days...In the end, what do you get for it?..Probably not what you were after..I'm twice your age, been there”. He laughed, “you're brutally honest”. She grinned “no, just factual and the fact is...wouldn't you rather have me for that money”?Gary was inside her room, frantically groping her, Eva said “slow down, you're going to lose it before you get it”. She. "Nothing further was said about her lunch with Tom that day or their going to the Inn at least once a week. But some time later when we were talking about some pop star's nasty divorce, I said with a laugh, "I've heard rumors about Tom, the guy at your job who used to take you to the Inn for lunch. He is said to be a real Casanova who has already seduced two married chicks during his first two months at the job and is said to be working hard on his third bimbo. Such a famous specimen ought to. “Yes.”“Yes, Marjorie,” she prompted.“Yes, Marjorie.”“Well, they are all in first names. ‘Do you John, take Mary... ‘ Well, courtship, the act of courting leading up to marriage, is done by first names, as well.” Not that she had ever been in an actual courtship.“Yes, Marjorie.”“And I probably shouldn’t be your teacher, either. I have really enjoyed having you in class. But you don’t court your teacher. We can be one thing, or we can be the other; we can’t be both.” Damn! When was the school.