Colleen smiled and explained that fifteen minutes was the same as four miles an hour, and the average healthy person normally walked at a pace of thre...e to four miles an hour. She hadn’t done anything she wasn’t perfectly capable of already!Colleen then turned them over to a very large and very buff young man for their Nautilus workout. Barbara smiled pleasantly at him. Jack looked like he worked out by lifting the huge machines, not using them, and his muscles looked very tasty to her. “Oooh,. I only hope I don't have any little ones running around somewhere because of it. As I said, I admit that it was good but I promised myself not to get tied down, and as long as I'm happy I refuse to let that happen.Now this morning when I got up and stretched my legs, the dew was still on the ground, and that's another thing about living my life the way I do. I can get up whenever I want to, and I can stay up as late as I like without giving anything else a thought. Anyway, when I got up the sun. I thought about how much I loved her and how I had shortchanged her by always being gone, working to solve other parents problems and completely forgetting I was a parent also. I sat hugging her, smelling the baby shampoo she still used, and felt the tears running down my own cheeks. God, I thought, here I was holding a teenager I loved more than life, and now I had three more coming to care for. I knew deep in my soul I had enough love for all of them, but this one I was holding had always. I explained to her that even though Mr. Lewis tries to keep tabs on me, I will do everything I can to be there for her. We both were crying now and holding hands. I apologized for not being there more for her more after Gary died, but I won't let that happen again.Now she really began to cry. I asked her if everything is okay, but she just waved me off, stood up, and gave me a crushing hug. She motioned for me to follow her. Once back in the kitchen, we went down into the basement. We went down.