"Well, yes." Elcy dimpled, "We had the idea that we'd tell stories for our supper when we ran out."

"Our parents introduced us." Elcy said, dancing around the heart of the matter. It would just confuse the children, "He was still in the Marines, then, and I was a little bit of a thing just into college...he swept me off my feet and we were married within months. Braig came quite a bit later." Several miscarriages and a period where they didn't try, before finally having their boy.