Al knew what she was about to say even before she spoke. He brushed her hair back off her face and kissed her. “I knew as soon as I saw you,” he t...old her. “You look radiant; beautiful, in fact. There is something special looking about a woman when she gets pregnant.” “Thank you,” she responded after a prolonged kiss. “You’ve told Greg, I take it.” Cathy nodded. “That’s why I took him away. I wanted to break it to him in private.” “That’s understandable. And what’s his response?” Cathy. Most women find that a few home truths are not pleasant to hear, so I do have a habit of upsetting them the most. As you can guess, that’s how I got into trouble. The girls kept topping up my drink.We’d been paid for the week on the station and actually had some cash. A lot of it ended up staying on the station after our night out. We found a table and settled in, and I got the first round. We had decided to drink the cheapest wine, bad idea, but that was what we did.Barb was the instigator of. Taking from his pocket the new collar he’d bought for this occasion, he looked at it ruefully before stooping and buckling it about his dog’s neck, for dogs, goats and women must never be allowed to run uncollared. Then they walked back to the farmhouse, hand in hand. CHAPTER THREE The wedding was to be on Lady Day, which proved to be sunny and fair. By now Elizabeth had despatched her father to live with some cousins of her husband’s family, and the old. Napoleon’s PenisThis one’s a real doozy. When Napoleon Bonaparte died, apparently his doctor cut off his penis for the autopsy. In 1977, the penis was eventually sold for a whopping $2,900 (this feels cheap?) to a urologist in New Jersey and was apparently 1.5 inches at the time it was sold. But during the interim period, people had much to say about it. Because it was ill-preserved, the penis was allegedly compared to a piece of leather, a shriveled eel, and to beef jerky. And when it was put.