Stinger, you forgot to say:
- he had nobody's shoulder to lean on when he felt lonely,
- he had nobody to speak to and share coffee with in the morning,
- he had nobody who would snuggle up and curl into his arms on cold rainy afternoons,
- he had nobody to soothe his fever when he was ill,
- he had nobody who would run to him with a smile from here to Kentucky and yell "Daddy!" at the top of his/her lungs
- he had nobody to share XMas gifts with
- he had to look for a place to have dinner on Thanksgiving Day because he lived all alone and his house was a mess...
Am I slamming you ?
No, it's the snapshot of the six loneliest years of my life, unaccompanied duty far enough from home to need to FLY on the weekend,
and my son grew up and he grew and he grew and one day I go home and find this 6th grader with a budding moustache...
...Hey! What happened to the kindergarten kid I was torn from a few years ago?
So, my "Happily ever after" means perhaps less money and quite a few nags...
...but my wife and I bring coffee to each other in bed every morning since the day we married (OK, the day after
) and anyway, what's a nag, if not the fish bone you cough out when enjoying that succulent fillet of fish a-la-grille?
I'd never ever want to be living alone anymore.
If I really had to, I'd retire, pack my bike and head... wherever the wind blows...
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