‘I’ve been so lucky all my life. I’ve had two Dads to love me, protect me and be there for me. Thank you for being my Dad too.’ I was overwhel...med. I never knew how she looked at me. She snuggled in and cried herself to sleep. The phone rang and I took care of each call, holding my daughter and Bob’s in my arms. An hour or so later Melissa came looking for her and she looked at me and said, ‘You know I love her.’ Again, it wasn’t a question. I nodded. ‘Are we Ok?’ ‘I love you both. I shouldn’t. " Would you pray for me?" Certainly, but will you excuse me for a moment while I fetch some things?"She nodded and he made his way back to the vestry, emerging wearing a scarlet stole that made a double slash of colour against his cassock, and with a small pot in his hand."Was there something in particular?" he asked,"I've been receiving counselling for, well, a problem I've had, and a few weeks ago my therapist prayed for me; it was something of a breakthrough. This morning, during the. We had closed maybe half he distance to them, when Toby said softly ‘you okay (with this?)’ ‘Yes’ was my reply, What I didn’t want is one of the boys turning around and to see Toby hugging me especially with a bared breast on view, but they were in front of David. At the moment Toby’s left arm was around my waist, as we walked side by side. Soon we had closed the gap on David to maybe 50 yards, the only person I could see coming our way was a male jogger maybe 200 yards away. I felt Toby’s. Whenever I saw her I found myself calmer and smiling slightly. Like my very own walking calming ritual. Which is probably why she started moving around so much, to give me reassurance that she was still here.And we still had another fucking day of travel to go.As I got Janey sat down with the last piece of smoked deer Jessie walked up to me, pulling out a pack of salt from her pack for the camp ritual. 'Listen, Mikhail. You're getting really easily pissed off all of a sudden. You need to calm.