it was a hanging curve . mel hit it out of the park , she said ," and what exaxtly dio you think happened in the canyon , alan ?"
i chuckled at her reply . she joined in . she knew i had begun reaching . she was also feeling increasingly confident that she was up to the task o=f hitting my best pitches . wallace had traioned her well . oprobably inadvertenly , but still ....
she said ," you turn to tell me something . hoe does your wife know about all of this ? what's her connection to the trip ? my father told me that merideth knows somebody who was down there . is she -"
:merideth's my ex-wife , mel . we were disvorced a long time ago , when you were still in boulder . probably when you were still in junior high , hanging out on the pearl street mall .""sayingthat made me feel old ." and yes - she knows someone who on the trip . she's enaged to a guy who was down there . at the canyon , at the river . part of this ....thing . i don't know where he fits in .
"merideth has become involved and asked for help because ....they've been - mel , will you agree to keep this next part to yourself ?merideth doesn't want it to become public .it's important to her . you'll understand why when i tell you what it is ."
she shrugged ." goes both ways . you don't tell my parentsd anything unless i tell you it's okay ?"
it was territory that i anticipated visiting with mel during our conversation ." fair," i said .
she seemed surprised at my easy abdication about keeping hercinfidence . she'd expected a fight . i had already decided that the best i could do with wallace and cassanda would be to share myconclusions about their daughter's well being . i didn't need to betray confidences to do that ." my friends and i didn't hang out on the mall . we hung out on the hill . . the hill was the student neighborhood close to theuniversity in boulder.
i chuckled at her reply . she joined in . she knew i had begun reaching . she was also feeling increasingly confident that she was up to the task o=f hitting my best pitches . wallace had traioned her well . oprobably inadvertenly , but still ....
she said ," you turn to tell me something . hoe does your wife know about all of this ? what's her connection to the trip ? my father told me that merideth knows somebody who was down there . is she -"
:merideth's my ex-wife , mel . we were disvorced a long time ago , when you were still in boulder . probably when you were still in junior high , hanging out on the pearl street mall .""sayingthat made me feel old ." and yes - she knows someone who on the trip . she's enaged to a guy who was down there . at the canyon , at the river . part of this ....thing . i don't know where he fits in .
"merideth has become involved and asked for help because ....they've been - mel , will you agree to keep this next part to yourself ?merideth doesn't want it to become public .it's important to her . you'll understand why when i tell you what it is ."
she shrugged ." goes both ways . you don't tell my parentsd anything unless i tell you it's okay ?"
it was territory that i anticipated visiting with mel during our conversation ." fair," i said .
she seemed surprised at my easy abdication about keeping hercinfidence . she'd expected a fight . i had already decided that the best i could do with wallace and cassanda would be to share myconclusions about their daughter's well being . i didn't need to betray confidences to do that ." my friends and i didn't hang out on the mall . we hung out on the hill . . the hill was the student neighborhood close to theuniversity in boulder.
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