They had seven more years to go.... By then, I was 32 and pretty happy with all aspects of my life but one. I was lonely. I dated a good bit but had n...ver found ‘the one’. Harry’s wife had gotten tired of his many affairs and had raped him in the divorce. Seems she knew a good bit more about his business than he thought. When she got done with him, the I.R.S. came knocking. The only thing that kept him from jail was me. It was a near thing, but he had to pay an estimated amount of two hundred. “What?” Benny asked.“The Shah went on vacation.”Benny sat up straight. Just to confirm that he heard correctly, he said, “The Shah of Iran went on vacation?”“Yes. That’s what they said on the radio.”“That’s very interesting. You know what that means.”Benny got up and grabbed his heavy coat. It had been cold out earlier with the temperature in mid-thirties.“You betcha. The price of oil is about to go bat-shit crazy. So what do we need to do make a pot load of money on this?”“We go see our stock. My adult world was far removed from modern teenagers and I had no basis of rapport with her generation. I shook my head and told myself I had been mistaken. When I walked back to the camp Jennifer gave me a quick glance then continued to talk to her friend Brittany.We finished the salvaged emergency rations I had found and then sat around the fire and everyone talked. I was beginning to become familiar with my fellow castaways. Kimberly said she was Talbot's "production investor". She was a. All that was left was for her to do her student teaching and take a few certification exams in the spring. The best part of this was that, provided she finish a few of the papers she had started in other classes, Ashley was cleared for student teaching that spring so she only needed to find a school that would take her. As Brandon’s mom was fairly certain she could get Ashley a spot in the district she worked for this was not much of an issue. A few days later Ashley met the rest of the family.
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