Chapter 359

• Take her
• It all happened because of my wife. Don’t get me wrong I’m not really blaming her but without her it never would have happened. Well let me start at the beginning. My wife and I had gone to high school together and though we hadn’t dated we were part of the same crowd. It was after we graduated that we started spending time together and six months later we were married after she became pregnant with our first child.
• Twenty three years and two more children later with our last one now out of the house we decided to make some lifestyle changes. Our youngest was in college out west when he met the “One” and asked us to ship him all his things out there. Now it was just the two of us in our too large and too empty house. We sold at the right time, not long before the bubble burst, luckily enough for us and bought a smaller, older house at a good price. It needed work but since I’m a carpenter by trade I was able to do most of the work myself which saved us a lot of money. Plus we paid for it with the proceeds of our last house so we had no mortgage to worry about.