There was something about you and Cheryl, yes, that's right, she said you and Cheryl were talking about getting together." What else?" Claire said tha...t couldn't be true, because you and she were an item, something like that." And Tracy said?" I couldn't see where this was leading. Tracy said something about you only liking pretty women. Claire didn't like that. And yes! I said that if you had committed to her you would be loyal to her because that's the sort of person you are." And?" Well,. Iremember how you read me stories when I was little. You played every roleand I really like the one about Yorick."Tim smile at his 'big girl' who was all of thirteen. He loved acting andenjoyed performing Shakespeare, Stoppard and other classics to her as apre-schooler. She was a wonderful audience, attentive and uncritical. Theshows stopped after the divorce."Let's have a bite and you can tell me about school."Kelly had just started junior high school and was somewhat anxious. Asthey sat down. “Why, Charles, I thought you a mere boy, while you are quite a man with such a thing as this.” “Oh!” I cried, “do continue to hold it, you give me such pleasure!” “Has anyone else ever held it in this way?” “No, I never felt anything like it before.” “But don’t you know what this is meant to do?” “Oh, yes, it is what I piddle from.” She laughed, and asked if it was often in its present state of stiffness.“Every morning when I awake it is so, and it hurts me very much until I piddle.” “And has. My ex-wife, Francine, along with her lover, had really taken me to the cleaners. She had gotten the house (where Asshole Baby was now shacked up with her openly), custody of our two girls (Gracie, 12, and Chelsea, 14), and a sizeable chunk of our joint finances in terms of lump sums and alimony. She and the asshole were also not planning to marry anytime soon, which meant my alimony payments kept coming to her until they did. During courtroom hearings involving visitation deliberations, I had.