She was welcomed with lot of love and affection in the house and all the relatives were there to see her and meet her. As always she was accommodated ...in her room (what an irony for married daughter) which was adjacent as well as inter connected to our room. She was so mesmerized with her room and all the welcome cards that she again ran to me and hugged me tight. It was truly getting very difficult for me.It was late night as both father daughter sat in her room we discussed a lot of things. Her marriage had broken up, her first husband had a problem with beer and one thing led to another and it all became too much. For a while Conrad worried about it perhaps being a rebound, but it became obvious quickly that Mary Ann had fallen completely and deeply in love with him. The jigsaw puzzle that had been his life slid together and was complete. The family was ready made, Samantha was barely 6 months old. The second child, Skip, arrived just a year and a half or so later. By then. Do you like fresh tomatoes and homemade pickles?’ ‘Sounds perfect,’ she said. ‘Can I help?’ ‘No, but come on in. I’ll give you a quick tour of the old place. Don’t get too excited though, it’s a bit of a bachelor pad.’ ‘Oh this is nice!’ she said as she followed me through the creaky old screen door. ‘Yeah, it’s a cool old place,’ I said. ‘Lots of character. I hate to change much ’cause I love it the way it is, but it really could use some updating and winterizing. When the wind blows across. Scanning its contents, I gasped in total disbelief. Rereading it carefully, I flopped back against the sofa cushions, staring at the ceiling as a wide grin spread across my face.It seems the board of directors had decided to open a consolidated European Operations division here in London, reporting directly to the company president and that I was being offered the CEO position of that new division. Should I accept the position, I should cancel my vacation and remain in London to locate housing,.