I politely paid the baby sitter and got Sean onto thecouch. When I turned around I saw little Peyton looking up at me with abig smile.The question se...emed innocent enough when it was in her pure voice. "Areyou Daddy's girlfriend?" I put my hand up to cover my smile as I blushedand got ready to tell her that I was just a friend when Sean's drunkenvoice answered. "That's right sweety? This is Taylor and she's my veryspecial girlfriend!" At the time I didn't think anything of it, and. All of our hormones had settled down the smell of sex was nowhere to be found except the car. She reached over the table to my hand and took it in hers and I gave her hand a gentle squeeze. That seemed to satisfy us both for now. She finished her breakfast and her coffee, came over to me and kissed me on the forehead telling me that she was going back to bed and that she loved me and I responded in kind. Over the next week our relationship returned to the way it was when we were first married,. I guess that’s not so bad. Thank you for the gift.’ ‘It’s my pleasure, now how’s the career going?’ I go over my career, and proudly boast a bit about the new line going in at Macy’s, and mom says she’ll get into the city to see them, betting me that her powers will tell her which ones were mine. I tell her a bit about my love life, and while not enthusiastic, she’s happy that I’ve got people in my life that I care about. It makes me feel better, knowing that maybe they’ll eventually get me,. That’sprobably why my marriage failed – – my wife could neverget inside of my head because I wouldn’t let her. Somesort of trust thing. Well, anyway, I had to come upwith some sort of answer…“A while.” Wow, another pithy comment.“I thought so. Did you know that when you were mysister’s teacher in college that she had the hots foryou something fierce?”“No way!” I remember my ex-wife warning me about allthe coeds who would.