' So saying, I stood up and walked to the bar, where Jeremy was getting served. While we waited for drinks, we chatted, and he asked if I had seen the... girl in the green dress. 'Bloody stunning' stated Jeremy, his eyes seeming to drool. I thought to myself that she was out of his league, mine too come to that. We took drinks back to our table, for the rest of our little group. Fiona was making eyes at Jeremy, but he could not see it, so I nudged him and said, 'Fiona would be blown away if you. .. er ... Paul, how can you honestly say that you love three women?”“Bill? Why don’t you love Blossom?”“What!? I love Blossom.”“Then you don’t love Gwen.”“Of course I love Gwen! But this is different.”“I know. The love between and husband and wife and that between a father and daughter is different and yet it isn’t. In my mind, love is love.” I looked at Erin as she nursed our daughters.“A while ago, we had a major upheaval in our relationship.” Erin picked up where I had hoped she would. “Paul. Jeremy had taken out a pretty hefty life insurance so that was a help and he also had a number of solid investments. He had decided against taking out any of those education insurance policies because he reckoned with school fees rising so fast that they'd never keep up whereas his income would. What he hadn't foreseen of course was his death. If there had been policies they would have guaranteed the children's fees."She paused to sip her drink. Hank thought he knew already where this story was. But because we wanted no bias I was asking one of them to sacrifice and not enter but organize the entertainment, collect and correlate all the votes.Eyes dropped to the table not meeting mine. Then Ruth Andrews spoke up, “I will do it. I was in a Government administration office back in Kolkatta.”She had read my text asking her to trust me and volunteer for whatever I asked the group.Ruth and I went into the toilets to discuss and prepare the event. Her eyes were watering as she said, “I did.
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