. and then had the nerve to tell me my choice for a husband was unacceptable. I say, is there anything to drink?"Over libations, she settled into the ...leather couch and patted the seat, "Come tell me the story of this yacht turned warship."Andie sat and commenced, like all good fairytales, with those famous words, "Once upon a time," and added, "I bought a sailboat..."The telling took several hours and a bottle of good old corn liquor ... the perfidy of the United States Bureau of Alcohol,. Of course the thought crept into my mind: what and when do Itell him about the "old me"? And how do I tell him such shocking newswithout having him reject me?Every day was like a miracle down here in Key West! Such blue water madeit extra fun to be bouncing around the ocean on Sea-Doos. After a whileof each of us on our own wave runner, I decided, with Ben's help ofcourse, to park mine and just hold on to my Ben's waist as he pushed hisSee Doo to it's limits while I held on for dear life! And. Generally, we have kept ourselves to ourselves only getting together at parties and anniversaries. Both theirs and our c***dren had all grown up and left for university’s only paying the obligatory visit when they had run out of cash. Well until Cathy met Lucy (my wife) in the local supermarket on day. Cathy had suggested to Lucy we have a small celebration of the c***dren going off to uni or something Lick that. The evening duly arrived and so did Stephen and Cathy. We insisted on hosting as. I’m not his rival. He’s helping you. If I do too, we might achieve more together than on our own.’ ‘OK. I’ll have told Simon before you return at five. He might be here. I hope you won’t argue…’ ‘Why should we? He seems a reasonable enough bloke who is helping you in his own way.’ We left it at that. I crammed all the dirty washing into a laundry bag and took it around the corner to the Laundrette. I paid for a service wash of two loads and apologised for the state of the washing. ‘That’s OK,’.