” “It has. I never thought I’d find someone who’d make me so happy. You’re everything I need, Cora.” “I feel the same Ella.” I can fee...l the urge to tell her now, I can’t decide if I should wait. I think to myself why wait? What’s the point? It’s the right time now! “Ella, I have been thinking about something.” “What about, Miss?” “I think… it’s time …. I think you should move in with me. I’m ready to have a live in pet again.” I turn to face her, her mouth drops open. She’s speechless. I feel a. Kathy and Jenny had both dozed off lying on their stomachs in the warm sun, when they were woken by a male voice saying: "Hey, Barry, I wondered whether you would be visiting your cottage ... How's the fishing?"Both girls rolled over and simultaneously gasped at the speaker, a man of about Barry's age, accompanied by a teenage boy of about 16.Kathy knew the man as Jack Stanford. She had for a couple of years been a secretary in the financial company where he worked, and also know him from. I came home from a business trip a couple of weeks ago to a welcome that I could never have imagined in my wildest dreams. I had taken quite a few of my clothes with me, and spent every minute possible on my trip dressed. Even in meetings I was wearing satin panties, stockings, garters and toe rings under my business suits.When I arrived home, my wife told me to get undressed because she had run me a bath. She had run a bubble bath and sprinkled rose petals on the water. She told me to get in,. We got back to Truman a week later and I was rather upset to learn that the families had already been notified of the losses. I thought it would be better if they heard it from me, but someone on Vice Admiral McGinty’s staff had dutifully fired off a report via message drone about the outcome of the battle and what it had cost us. Some officer from the personnel section had made the notifications to the families. He’d been gentle and respectful about it -- apparently this was a duty he was.