When we returned home, Amy ran upstairs to get cleaned up from soccer and I noticed that Robert was gone visiting a friend. Ann and Jo were sitting at the kitchen table and the scene of the two of them looked so serene I could hardly believe that Jo was having a personal crisis.

I puttered around the garage and yard doing some fall cleanup until about 2pm. By then I was starving, so I went in and ate. Amy was watching TV and there was no sign of Ann and Jo. I went upstairs and found them in our bedroom, oohing and aahing over some of Ann's clothes and...