~~Start of Part 19~~

We get up the next morning and the girls have to head into work, so we go through our normal morning routine and they head out the door. Becky and I are just sitting there, and I figure it is good to let her just keep figuring this out on her own, she will talk to me if she needs anything.

Becky finally looks over at me and asks, “So, what do you think I should do with the house?”

I think about that for minute and then tell her, “If it was me, I think I would just have the attorney sell it. I would not want to be in that neighborhood anymore, everyone knowing what had happened and constantly being a reminder of it, let alone the house itself. But that is just me.”

Becky looks at me and says, “Very good insight honey, I was thinking along the same lines myself.” “I will have the attorney take care of it, and put it in an account when the sale is done, I was thinking perhaps Mandy and Sis might like to move into a house and we could all watch out for each other as they are finishing up their PHD programs. That would be nice for all of us.”

“I think they would love that Becky, and I would feel good knowing you are all together and watching out for each other while I am over in Korea…”

Becky looks over at me and can tell it is starting to weigh on me now; I will be going halfway around the world and be in a strange place for a year with only phone calls back to the real world to keep me sane… She looks over at me, gives me a hug, and says, “You know we are not going to forget about you right?”

“yeah, a little boy that is now not even here, you will all be married and gone by the time I get back to the real world…”

Becky pulls me in to her and gives me a huge hug and says, “you are not a little boy, and have proven several times in just the short time I have known you, honey. You are a Man that is going off to start his life, and I for one will not be married I guarantee you that…Just try to relax and enjoy the time you have left here honey. It will help you on the tough days over there, trust me I know.”

I half believe her, hell she did do 3 tours over in a war zone when she just a few years older than I am, and she was dealing with all the guys about my age beaten and broken up by war…I file all this crap away for now…

The rest of the day we just relax and enjoy each other’s company and I try very hard to burn every detail I can into my head…so I can recall it when everything is really sucking over there and hopefully it will get me though.