He asks Les, “So from that first day, you and my mother were lovers? How did you make it work without me knowing? And why didn’t you let me know...? I understand why as a child, but as I grew older and could understand, why not then? Or after my mother died?”Les heavily sighs and looks at Tim with great compassion.Yes, it did go on from there for the next twenty years until your mother died. We were more than just lovers, we were friends, companions, and both wholly concerned about your. She had waited, rather impatiently, of course, with the comment, "Do you feel better that you had to go hide in your room to change, Daddy?" I did what so many fathers do and just laughed and went on with my day.I'd pretty much forgotten about it when, later in the evening, after supper, I was in the den watching television when Allie came down from upstairs wrapped in two towels, one on her head, one on her body.Her room was the former basement which I converted to a nice, large room for her. " Wow thanks a million coach!" Lexi replied.All the other girls filed into the locker room, undressing and being careless in the locker room, running around nude, talking about boys, sex, their bodies, Lexi being fully nude walked into the bathroom stall, sat down on the seat and spread her legs and hung them on the toilet paper dispenser and the tampon dispenser and started rubbing her clit which had gotten moist when her coach picked up her toys, she imagined her coach, her name was Julia,. ”Time passed. Kim just concentrated on her thumbs as if waiting for some feature to become clear. Counting my breaths in an unorganized way, I continued to look at the page in my hands with breaks to the screen. The scene shifted to some other nameless beach abandoned to the possession of a handful of gulls.“Kenny,” she turned away from her hands and looked at me, “do you love her?”I closed my eyes to think, listening to my heart’s rhythm.“Yes,” I paused for another thought. “More than life.