Checking in from the in-law's place... lovely story, Wendy & Dave! Horribly angsty, of course, which is why I didn't read part one until after part two was up laugh

And Ann -- your mini-essays are fascinating. You see things that I don't, and I'm glad you share smile

PJ

"You told me you weren't like other men," she said, shaking her head at him when the storm of laughter had passed.
He grinned at her - a goofy, Clark Kent kind of a grin. "I have a gift for understatement."
"You can say that again," she told him.
"I have a...."
"Oh, shut up."

--Stardust, Caroline K