Romance

CHAPTER 4 I knew Toni was right. I’d even agreed with her, but that didn’t make explaining to my two devoted kids any easier. They had been home a few hours—long enough to unload David’s van—when I walked in around 4:30. Of course, they asked about Lizzie, their mom, first. I tried to fill them in on everything, but what I had to say wasn’t nearly enough. After spending almost an hour filling in as many blanks as humanly possible I decided I had to get to the DVD’s. “There’s something I have to show you. Lizzie made it for me, but there’s no way for me to explain what’s happened without your seeing it.” I turned on the TV and loaded the disc before sitting between my two kids. They sat silently as they …

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CHAPTER 11 We went boating the following day, taking a lunch from the deli along with some chairs, umbrella, blanket, and a big rubber tire tube. It was Labor Day Weekend—the last big weekend of the summer, although I’ve always enjoyed the later weekends in September—and we planned to enjoy it to the max. I drove the boat out of the harbor, turned left, but grounded it around half way to Crane’s Neck. The beach there is deserted. There’s a big marsh behind the beach and no homes for almost a mile. A small creek leads to the marsh. At high tide the water rushes in and as it ebbs the water rushes out. It’s a blast riding a tube either way, especially because the bottom is only inches below the surface and it’s covered …

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