Things had changed, as their daughter had. Janice seemed much more distant. Their bedroom antics which were always pretty adventurous, or so it seemed compared to most of their friends, had become much more plain-vanilla. Now, in retrospect, he realized how much he missed the ways things were, and how good he'd had it.

Now she was always irritated with him, blaming him for the way that Heather was turning out. He'd given up on the hellion years ago, letting Janice spoil her rotten, and guaranteeing that no matter what the brat did, there'd be no consequences. When she'd brought home her first F's at 15 years old, after 9...