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Post by iamnobody on Apr 7, 2021 10:01:45 GMT -6
The prisoner looked at him and laughed, saying she wasn't scared of his threats. John looked her in the eyes and said he didn't make threats, only promises. Her look of confidence evaporated and she said men were too weak and he would never harm a woman. John just smiled at her and said that she gave up the protection of being a woman when she attacked them and that they had just wiped out 60 women that attacked them.
The man that John whispered to came back carrying a box which he held out to John. Before he could take the box, Sallie Mae took the box and stood next to John. He looked at her but she continued to hold the box.
John turned back to the prisoner and took the razor sharp knife he had borrowed from Ed and cut the sleeves from the shirt she was wearing. She said he could cut all he wanted but he as an infidel would get no answers from her. John said that he would get answers, the easy way or the hard way, but he would have answers.
John opened the box that Sallie Mae was still holding. According to your religious beliefs, you can not enter Heaven if you have ever been contaminated with anything from a pig. He pulled a jar from the box and opened it. The smell was of lard. Another jar came out of the box and when opened, it was the smell of pig's blood. Then he pulled a fresh pigskin from the box.
Addressing the prisoner, he told her he wanted truthful answers. That if she lied even once, he would cover her whole body with pig lard, pour the jar of pig blood over her and then bury her wrapped in the pigskin. John wanted to know her name, what group she belonged to, who gave them orders. The woman was shaking and crying.
John saw a flash of light at the forest's edge. He yelled “DOWN” and used his one arm to pull Sallie Mae down too. A split second later a bullet entered the head of the prisoner. Within a few seconds there were FALs and AR15s responding and chewing up the forest. When the magazines were empty and people reloading, laughter drifted from the forest.
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Post by freebirde on Apr 7, 2021 10:55:30 GMT -6
Don't know if truth or fiction, but heard of Russian burying Muslim terrorist in pig skins. Other reports of some being fed to pigs, dead or alive.
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Post by iamnobody on Apr 9, 2021 8:20:12 GMT -6
Mike was already on the radio calling for teams Alpha, Bravo and Charlie to get out in the forest. For the children to be put in the shelter for safety and all remaining people to get in defensive positions to defend the town. Sallie Mae had untangled herself from John pulling her to the ground and grabbed her medic pack to be ready if she was needed.
The 3 teams out in the forest did their searching but only found a trail of boot tracks that soon faded out. After several more hours of searching Mike told them to come in. As the last man of team Charlie was entering the town, a shot rang out and he collapsed. He was pulled inside behind some sandbags where a medic started working on him to get him ready for transport to the doctors building. Mike ordered the town locked down and night vision used as darkness was setting in.
Mike called a meeting. He got a report on the wounded man's condition, a wound to the chest, he would live but be out of commission for a while. Mike ordered the teenage techies to get their drones up and have thermal cameras on them. Starting in the morning he wanted 2 teams to be outside patrolling. Ed and Donna volunteered to help out, which Mike accepted. The meeting ended and John slipped off to find a hidden place to sleep.
Sallie Mae was carrying a plate of food and looking for him. Daisy saw her and stopped to talk with her cousin. After some chitchat Daisy said Sallie had it bad for John. Sallie blushed and said that he was “the one”. Daisy told her that with John's past, women were not at the top of his trustworthy list. Sallie Mae said she understood that but pointed out that he did pull her to the ground during the attack. Daisy told her not to read too much into that action, that he was just helping someone that was nearby.
Meanwhile John was also having a hard time falling asleep. He kept thinking about the day's events, the prisoner, the materials they found on the sniper teams. There was something tugging at the back of his mind.
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Post by smitty60 on Apr 11, 2021 10:18:19 GMT -6
Thanks for the chapter.
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Post by iamnobody on Apr 12, 2021 11:16:37 GMT -6
Over the next few weeks, the drones with thermal imaging was finding nothing and the patrols were unable to find anyone. The patrols would find some tracks that would soon disappear. Randomly a shot would come which would hit one of the patrol people or townsfolk. No outside work was getting done due to the threat.
Ed and Donna had been going along on the patrols. They had cut fresh sign of boot tracks several times but never saw anyone. They would hear the shots and would help shoot in the direction of where it came from. Then on their last patrol a shot rang out and Donna grunted in pain from a bullet entering her thigh. Everyone returned fire but when they stopped, all they heard was laughter. The team bandaged Donna's wound and then Ed carried her as they made their way back to town.
In town at the doctor's office, they drew blood and were prepping Donna for light surgery to tend the bullet wound. They warned her that it would hurt but the wound wasn't life threatening. After cleaning and stitching the wound, Ed was still at her side. The doc said it would quickly heal but she would be off patrol for months. Ed and Donna wanted to know why since it wasn't a bad wound. The doctor told them their blood tests showed Donna was pregnant.
Ed and Donna were looking at each other in disbelief. Ed took Donna's hand and then looked at the doctor and asked if he was sure, that they had been trying for years since they were married with no success. The doctor said he was sure. The herbalist woman had been helping the doctor and she asked if Donna wore makeup. Donna said always up to the last few months since they were on the run. The herbalist told her that a lot of makeup contained a herb that caused abortions. So women wearing the makeup were actually causing a baby to abort every month. Something that people did not know and the people wanting to reduce the world population were not telling.
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Post by NCWEBNUT on Apr 12, 2021 17:49:13 GMT -6
So women wearing the makeup were actually causing a baby to abort every month. Something that people did not know and the people wanting to reduce the world population were not telling. I can see this as being a true Scenario in this day and age of the Gates and their high minded ideas of there being to many people on the planet.
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Post by iamnobody on Apr 13, 2021 8:07:02 GMT -6
Families couldn't go check on their homes outside of town due to the sniper. Families would try but would suffer bloodshed. It had been 6 weeks since the sniper started and they had 7 killed and 20 wounded. The only thing they had of the sniper was that taunting laugh.
John had been busy making a ghillie suit that would blend into the local area. He then had a late night talk with Mike, then took a few days to get ready. On the 4th day towards evening on the prearranged time, the far side of town opened up with a barrage of gun shots into the woods. Two minutes later the other side of town joined in the gunshots. It is now twilight and John has crawled across the open ground in his ghillie suit and is entering the forest. The next day Sallie Mae is looking for John with no success. By evening she catches Daisy alone and asks her if she has seen John. Daisy looks around to see if anyone is near, then leads Sallie Mae into the place they are staying. While she feeds baby Terence, Daisy speaks in such a low voice that Sallie Mae has to lean in close to hear her words. How John is out in the forest looking for the sniper and not to tell anyone or it could get him killed. Sallie Mae felt the blood drain from her face at the thought of “her man” out there alone in the woods hunting for the sniper. Daisy saw the look on Sallie Mae's face at the news and suggested they pray together for his safety. They spent the next 30 minutes in prayer with Sallie Mae begging God to bring him back safely.
Meanwhile John is out in the forest laying still in an area that would make a good ambush position for anyone shooting at the town. He had spent the previous days not eating much and what he had ate was binding to his bowel system so that he wasn't needing to make a bowel movement out in the woods. He had made sure he used no scented soap, nor deodorants, nor mouthwash before he went into the forest. He just laid still watching and listening to everything around him. Every now and then he would take a sip of water via a tube connected to a water bladder on his back. He has been laying there for 3 days, the local animals had forgotten about him being there, bugs were crawling over his body but he stayed still.
At the dawn of the 4th day, just 5 feet in front of him the leaves started moving. A panel of leaves opened to reveal a head sticking out. Slowly the body of a man emerged partway. The man rested a scoped rifle over the ground, looking towards the town. John slowly brought his rifle up but wanted him alive if he could. Keeping the rifle on the sniper, John gathered himself to leap. John landed on the man's back and brought his rifle stock down on the back of the man's head. The man was knocked out cold. John bound him with zip ties after checking him and removing all weapons, then started dragging him to the town. At the forest's edge he called out who he was and to get Mike. John waited til Mike was there before coming out of the forest.
John got him into the town and tied him to a post. By then the prisoner was awake. Mike was looking at him when Daisy came up. When she saw him, she exclaimed – YOU!
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Post by cavsgt on Apr 13, 2021 10:56:51 GMT -6
My fingers get so sore from hanging on the cliffs. Love it need MOAR MOAR please.
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Post by smitty60 on Apr 13, 2021 11:44:51 GMT -6
Nice.Thank you
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Post by 9idrr on Apr 13, 2021 18:49:32 GMT -6
Hope John didn't damage his rifle butt.
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Post by iamnobody on Apr 14, 2021 7:56:37 GMT -6
Hope John didn't damage his rifle butt. That's the beauty of those old rifles, they had wood stocks that were built for rough use, unlike a lot of newer rifles with hollow plastic stocks. And a lot of them actually had steel butt plates.
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Post by bluefox2 on Apr 14, 2021 20:40:28 GMT -6
Hope John didn't damage his rifle butt. That's the beauty of those old rifles, they had wood stocks that were built for rough use, unlike a lot of newer rifles with hollow plastic stocks. And a lot of them actually had steel butt plates. I have one of those with a steel butt plate. Ivan is his name
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Post by iamnobody on Apr 15, 2021 8:30:09 GMT -6
Mike looked at Daisy with a questioning look on his face. Daisy faced Mike and said that when she was still in high school, that she had dated him, that his name was Steve. Steve just smiled and said to tell him the truth, that they had dated for 3 years and had many a good time together in his truck at Lookout Point on Saturday nights. Mike got in his face and told him it was a nice try buddy but it wasn't going to work. That he didn't care about Daisy's past because she loved him and has been completely loyal since being with him. In the meantime John has been going through the papers that were found on Steve. After looking at 1 paper with a raised eyebrow, he handed it to Mike.
Mike read the paper and by the end of it, his mouth was hanging open. He passed the paper to Daisy to read. She read it and by the end she had a look of disgust on her face. The people around them were looking at each other. Mike took the paper back from Daisy and read it out loud. The paper stated that when the town fell, that Steve would get Daisy as his reward for his service to the cause. It was signed by the President of the US, Chung Bidding.
Steve smiled and looking at Daisy, said it wasn't too late to set him free and come with him and be saved. Daisy raised her rifle and Mike pushed the barrel up just in time for the bullet to whiz past Steve's head by ½ an inch. Mike told Daisy that they needed Steve alive for more questioning. Zeb said they would see to the questioning since Steve had smeared the honor of his sister and of his friend Mike.
Mike lead her away, back to where they were staying. He got her a cup of tea to soothe her nerves. After sipping some tea and staring off into space a few minutes, Daisy started talking. She told of how they dated for 3 years and yes they were having sex. How Steve was a good worker and the best tracker and woodsman in the State. That would explain why he was able to elude everyone. Then Steve had started displaying meanness and cruelty and Daisy had stopped dating him.
Daisy looked at Mike and said she loved him and asked if he could ever forgive her for not telling him about Steve. Mike told her there was nothing to forgive, what was before him was in the past and that he knew she was loyal to him and that he loved her too.
Meanwhile Sallie Mae after seeing John was okay, was on her knees thanking God for answering her prayer in bringing him back safely. John had seen her doing it and was watching her with a tilt of his head and she saw him looking, so she told him she was thanking God for bringing him back safely. She then asked him if he was okay or needed anything. He slowly shook his head no and then told her he was going to go get some much needed sleep.
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Post by arkansascob on Apr 15, 2021 9:09:31 GMT -6
Nice play nobody.
I skimmed back thru this story and the others that combined with this one trying to figure out who the sniper was. No players stood out so I hung on the cliff with everyone else.
Looking forward to Zeb inflicting some good old fashion hillbilly interrogation.
COB
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Post by NCWEBNUT on Apr 15, 2021 11:36:25 GMT -6
Nice play nobody. I skimmed back thru this story and the others that combined with this one trying to figure out who the sniper was. No players stood out so I hung on the cliff with everyone else. Looking forward to Zeb inflicting some good old fashion hillbilly interrogation. COB I see i'm not the only one that done that I was at a loss as to who it was as a well.
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Post by 9idrr on Apr 15, 2021 18:42:37 GMT -6
Yeah, he did a pretty good job of keepin' us wonderin', didn't he?
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Post by iamnobody on Apr 16, 2021 7:41:18 GMT -6
In the morning everyone gathered around the prisoner who didn't look so confident and was sporting a few bruises. Zeb and Pa had conducted the interrogation during the night and thought they had gotten the truth. Never underestimate the skills of 2 hillbillies wanting to get answers from someone that has hurt them. They found out that Steve was mad at Mike for “stealing” Daisy from him. Steve had left the town a month before Mike had arrived and was waiting on a chance to get back with Daisy. Then Mike had married Daisy. The troubles had started and Steve had buddied up with some of the early FEMA soldiers and soon found out that if he helped take down the town, he could get Daisy as his reward for service. Steve used his skills to prepare sniper hides and supplies around the town, then started his work of killing people. Zeb and Pa had also found out that President Chung Bidding hated the town because they were resisting him so well and that there was a massive attack being planned against the town in the near future. Mike asked them what they should do with the prisoner now. Zeb said the only way that could keep the prisoner from the townsfolk during the night was to promise them that they would get Steve when they were done getting information. Steve turned white with fear, the people wanted revenge for his killing of their family members. The fact that he used to be one of them and betrayed them meant their revenge was going to be very painful and dragged out before his death.
While some of the people started on Steve, Mike ordered the teams to gear up, they needed to check on the homes outside of town and get any remaining supplies into town. Mike, Zeb, Ed, John and the other team members went out to check, with trucks on standby call for picking up any supplies. They found a lot of homes were trashed and most had several booby traps set in them. The traps were disarmed without the teams suffering any losses.
They check Mike's home, it is untouched and the bunker underneath seems undisturbed. Mike checks it and everything is okay. They think the home was not trashed because Steve planned on claiming it along with Daisy. Mike carefully hides the bunker entrance again. They decide to leave things there in case they need to leave the town. They find traces of several 3 man FEMA patrols, those thugs are still being sloppy in their movements. After several days they finished their checks and went back to town. Mike now has the town back on full alert, patrols outside the town 24/7, drones up, radios being monitored and everyone having a full combat load at all times.
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Post by freebirde on Apr 16, 2021 11:50:00 GMT -6
Station some high lift capacity drones on natural flight lines and cardinal points of the town. String lines with items that would act as FOD and/or chaff with a RC activated flare on the end of the line. IIRC some rebel in the Philippines flew large sky blue, cloud white, or grey kites with lines to foul helicopter blades.
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Post by smitty60 on Apr 17, 2021 17:11:20 GMT -6
Thank you
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Post by iamnobody on Apr 20, 2021 9:29:16 GMT -6
It has been 2 weeks and everything has been quiet, not even many drones trying to access their air space. Mike still has everyone on alert and training. When not training, people are tending to things in the town. Mike gets a call on the radio about 2 delivery trucks headed towards town. They will reach the checkpoint in 10 minutes. Mike and several teams move to the checkpoint to find out about the trucks. They got there several minutes before the trucks.
When the trucks rolled up they were waved to a stop several yards away. Mike had deployed teams to cover the trucks from all 4 sides. He walked up to the side of the lead truck and told the driver to state his business. The driver said it was deliveries from his suppliers, that there was 1 truck of food stuff and the other truck was ammo. Mike took the bills of lading, they looked like the previous bills from other deliveries, the trucks had the vendor names on them and the driver was even in company uniform. The preacher was along with the teams and was standing nearby watching. He scribbled something on a paper and walked up to Mike, handed it to Mike who looked at it and the preacher said to give it to the driver.
Mike walked up to the truck and stepped up on the steps and showed the paper to the driver while saying it was for him. As the driver's eyes went to the paper, Mike pressed his 1911A1 against the driver's head and told him to get out of the truck. The other team members ordered the other driver out of his truck. They had both drivers spreadeagled on the ground. Mike was asking the drivers what was in the trailers. 30 men in each one was the answer.
Making sure that his people were in place behind cover, Mike yelled for the men inside to come out with their hands up, they had 10 seconds to comply. 10 seconds and no movement, Mike put a round through the trailer towards the top. Suddenly there was a bunch of yelling of “don't shoot” and the sound of guns dropping. The trailer doors opened and guys started coming out with their hands up. After the guys were rounded up, searched and made to kneel, Mike asked the preacher how he knew. The preacher said he saw the small prison gang tattoo on the side of the driver's neck.
The prisoners were yelling that they had “rights” and that they were here on the authority of the President. They were yelling that they would be sorry when the town fell and they would all be killed and their women and children taken to be their sex slaves.
Mike gave a slight nod and 62 shots rang out and The FEMA thugs were adding their blood to the ground. Mike gave orders for the place to be cleaned up and the trucks moved out of the way.
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Post by freebirde on Apr 20, 2021 11:00:08 GMT -6
Check the trucks for transmitters and traps, also check the weapons. Also make sure the ammo has not been tampered with. One shell in magazines left to be liberated in 'Nam would have the cordite replaced with C-4. Russians would have one grenades in the center of the crate fused to zero seconds.
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Post by iamnobody on Apr 21, 2021 8:33:43 GMT -6
Mike and the group were sitting around that evening. Mike was asking for any thoughts of what he missed in trying to be ready for any attacks. After a moment of silence Pa spoke up and said there was an old saying about not keeping all your eggs in the same basket. Mike looked at him with a puzzled look. Pa said having some 3 man teams outside staying hidden could spring surprise attacks on an enemy's backside when they attack. Mike said that was a great idea, maybe 4 teams of 3 located in 4 different areas, maintaining radio silence and kept hidden.
One week later the alarm sounded over Mike's radio. The drones had spotted incoming convoys of troop carrier trucks on both sides of the town roads. He activated the town's defenses and hurried over to the techies building and looked at the drone footage. He could see FEMA thugs unloading, about 200 total. Mike put the information over the radio that this was a big attack. The road checkpoint teams had to fall back already due to the shear numbers coming against them. The FEMA thugs were hooting and hollering as they came forward. They were firing their M4s from the waist on full auto, spraying bullets everywhere. The townspeople fired back from behind sand bag positions with their FALs and AR15s on semi auto.
FEMA thugs were dropping but Mike could also see his towns people dropping too. Some lay silent in death, some screaming in pain and calls for medics sounding out from all directions. Mike thought he would get a moment to regroup his people but then he heard a couple of whumps in the distance and suddenly there are explosions happening throughout the the town. They were using mortars on the town!
Mike ordered some teams to go take out the mortars but as they headed towards the treeline, some heavy belt fed machine guns opened up. Mike lost 6 guys in just a few seconds from the machine guns. 2 of the mortars had fallen silent from the techies drones. The drones were armed with single shot 22LR tubes under the drones. The drones were recalled to be rearmed. Mike's 3 man teams worked their way in behind the machine gun crews and were eliminating them.
John was doing his part to defend the town. When the machine gun in front of him fell silent, Sallie Mae as a medic rushed to check on the wounded in front of the defenses. Most were dead but she found one that was barely alive and started treating him. The FEMA thugs attacked thinking it would be an easy target. As they ran towards her, they were yelling “first dibs” and what they were going to do to her. John opened up with his Savage 30-30 and was hitting a thug with every shot. He moved up next to Sallie Mae to urge her behind cover. She said she had to stabilize the wounded man she was working on or he would die moving him.
Sallie went back to tending the wounded man while John was firing at the oncoming FEMA thugs. Some made it close enough that it became hand to hand fighting. They wanted Sallie Mae alive so they were trying to beat John. John was using his rifle and butt stroking them. Also Ed had trained him in the use of a tomahawk. John blocked a FEMA thug's rifle and then used his tomahawk to sever the man's head. Bringing the tomahawk back around he sunk it deep in another thugs arm then pulling it free. John could see that they were Puerto Ricans. They pulled back and made 2 more attacks trying to get Sallie Mae while she tended to the wounded man.
Finally it was just 4 thugs left facing John. The leader held up his hand to stop his buddies from attacking again. The leader looked at John and called out “El Oso” and turned and left. By now other towns people showed up to defend this section. The drones were showing the thugs pulling back and loading up in the trucks to leave.
The towns people got the wounded man Sallie Mae had been treating, onto a stretcher and took him back. Sallie Mae is looking at John and then tells the other men they need him on a stretcher too.. John says “what” and that is the last he remembered until waking up in the hospital tent.
Sallie Mae was sitting by his cot when he woke up. He tried to get up but it hurt too much. She called the doc over who checked his vitals. John asked what happened, the doc told him he had collapsed from getting 3 bullet holes and 1 knife slash. That he had underwent surgery and took an extra pint of blood to replace what he lost. John asked where he got the blood from because he had the rare blood type of B negative. The doc pointed at Sallie Mae and said she was B negative too. Sallie Mae smiled at John and told him she had given him a pint of her blood which meant she was now part of him. Then she told him that the thug had given him an honorable name by calling him “El Oso” John said he didn't understand Spanish, he didn't know what that meant. She explained that “El Oso” meant The Bear because he fought like one in keeping them away from getting her. Then she said that John was “mi oso” which meant “my bear” as she took his hand in hers and intertwined her fingers with his. She told him thank you for saving my life.
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Post by NCWEBNUT on Apr 21, 2021 10:29:38 GMT -6
Sallie Mae might be cracking some of Johns Ice around his heart
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Post by iamnobody on Apr 21, 2021 15:06:00 GMT -6
Sallie Mae might be cracking some of Johns Ice around his heart It would be easy in real life to have a hardened heart like John. To have the closest person to you, your wife, betray you in the worst possible way. We were VERY conservative Christians, no sex before marriage, she wore long dresses, etc. To find out that after 13 years of marriage, that on her death bed at the hospital, that her dress was being hiked up by many guys many times. I guess that shows what a big shmuck I was for not seeing any signs. I live in a rural, conservative area. If this kind of stuff is going on here, it terrifies me to think of what is happening in the big cities. I have looked in churches, in stores, at work. I even tried 5 different on line dating sites – they are a joke. I talked with several women that have children, some of them with different daddies to their children. (I would be open to children.) But as soon as they find out I have children, it is NO WAY from them. They have children with daddies still alive and all the drama that would entail, but they don't want me to have children whose mom is dead and no drama? I don't have a hardened heart, just a realistic outlook nowadays, I have given up on actively looking for a woman. I live in a rural area and I figure if God has a woman for me, she will have to be dropped in by parachute, maybe a big pink ribbon on her to make sure even a dense guy like me can recognize her.
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Post by bluefox2 on Apr 21, 2021 19:09:37 GMT -6
Sallie Mae might be cracking some of Johns Ice around his heart It would be easy in real life to have a hardened heart like John. To have the closest person to you, your wife, betray you in the worst possible way. We were VERY conservative Christians, no sex before marriage, she wore long dresses, etc. To find out that after 13 years of marriage, that on her death bed at the hospital, that her dress was being hiked up by many guys many times. I guess that shows what a big shmuck I was for not seeing any signs. I live in a rural, conservative area. If this kind of stuff is going on here, it terrifies me to think of what is happening in the big cities. I have looked in churches, in stores, at work. I even tried 5 different on line dating sites – they are a joke. I talked with several women that have children, some of them with different daddies to their children. (I would be open to children.) But as soon as they find out I have children, it is NO WAY from them. They have children with daddies still alive and all the drama that would entail, but they don't want me to have children whose mom is dead and no drama? I don't have a hardened heart, just a realistic outlook nowadays, I have given up on actively looking for a woman. I live in a rural area and I figure if God has a woman for me, she will have to be dropped in by parachute, maybe a big pink ribbon on her to make sure even a dense guy like me can recognize her. Brother, the woman for you will sneak up and get you when you least expect it. Do not worry in that respect. go out and enjoy life each day.
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