As time went on, they still spent as much time as they could together, although with tough jobs and three kids now, it was not as often as they would have liked. What time they did get together was cherished and they made the most of it. They weren't teenagers anymore but still made passionate love to each other at least once or twice a week, usually shipping the kids off to one of the grandparent's houses for the night.

By the time Sidney was seventeen she was a junior in high school, and the boys were sixteen and fifteen as sophomore and freshmen respectively. Sydney was involved in some...