It would not be a Kumbaya moment or even two, Part One
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Author's notes, I have asked for volunteer editors and worked with two so far, their responsiveness was about one page of productivity per two weeks. So I self-edit, if I make a mistake get over it. I'm sick to death of dimbulbs with ignorant mean spirited comments. One asshole who has never written a word but has thirteen hundred comments in five years (22 per month) incessantly says shit on my stuff, same thing, I try to block him. I am really trying emulate stream of conscious writers so rather than see Jane rim Dick, Jane takes Leroy's long black dong, I don't do that. Enjoy.
Eli was the love of my life. She was forty four years old and stunningly beautiful. A wonderful woman who completed her degree in education from the University of Washington and her teaching certificate and she taught the second grade at Poulsbo Elementary. We added babies, four of them Teddy Jr., Joey, Katy and Nick
We agreed to stop when I was thirty two and Eli was thirty one.
Her parents Bill and Cindy Ericksen lived on Lincoln and Cindy had been a pre-school teacher and so Eli took six months off post birth as allowed for in the teacher's union contract and Cindy and Bill watched the kids.
When Eli was thirty five years old, she became district's union representative to coordinate activities with the school District and the Washington State Department of Education. Maybe about ten years ago, she became a lobbyist for The State Department of Education.
I was an economist at several large banks in Seattle, that I commuted via ferry. At first it was standard stuff, inflation predictions and then Asset Liability Management (Interest rate risk management), then it Merger and Analysis and after all the bank's failed in the great recession, I became what was known as a turn around specialist, initially for several banks, then for medium to large businesses in near or even post bankruptcy status or even receivership.
I made huge money compared to when I started, mid six figures after I started at eighty five hundred a year.
Eli called me one night when I was in Ottawa dealing with a failed computer services company. I'd been there about three weeks and we'd exchanged some texts, not a lot but once a week and on the weekends.
I picked up and it was a butt dial and she was at a party, or in a bar and I could hear her drunk laugh, very high and loud and then she said, "Fuck yes, let's dance."
Then she hung up. I called her right back and it went to voice mail. I called her mom and said, "Hi mom, can I talk to Eli?"
She said, "Hi Teddy, how are you?"
She had evaded the question, I repeated it, "Can I talk to Eli?"
"No Teddy, she's at the at that lobbyist convention in the U.S. Virgin Island in Charlotte Amalie, the capital city and then she's taking a two week vacation to the Bahamas. She told you about it last week, I heard her talking to you on the phone."
I said, "I have not talked to her in six weeks. Nice try, "and I hung up.
I texted Katy and said, "Get somewhere away from Grammy and call me."
Immediately she responded, "Ten minutes."
She was eighteen and was in this fast start program and in culinary school.
My phone rang, I picked up, "Hey Kate, half an hour ago I got a bump dial from your mom and she's at this party dancing with some guy, screaming her head off, then she hung up and when I called her back it went straight to voice mail.
Then I called your Grammie and she openly lied to me that she was at a lobbyist convention in the Virgin Islands and then she's going on a vacation to the Bahamas and that she heard your mom tell me about it last week. I haven't talked to your mom in six weeks."
Katy said, "Dad! Why are you so surprised you guys have been in an open marriage for what now ten years?"
I said, "What the fuck did you say?"
"You're in an open marriage! She's awfully serious about this latest guy, just so you know. He's a total hunk."
"So she told all of you kids that?"