I have been watching them for half of this godforsaken tour of duty, and you can’t tell me there’s nothing going on between those two.

 I mean, there’s nothing you can SEE, per se, but I don’t need to see something to know something’s there.  My gut is right 100 percent of the time, and, as I’ve noted in my officer’s log and in my notes that go by pouch once a…

What surprised the family most when she brought him home was his ordinariness. Mother had set the table with her best company’s-coming cloth napkins and Good China, while Father had donned an anathematic necktie for a meal in his own home.

My nervous sister ushered in this man -- one suitor among so many that we'd wondered what made him…