We left Monday morning for our cottage in Peille. The whole drive, I was wondering how it would be after Monte-Carlo. Would we go back to our old routine or start living as a married couple instead of lovers? Changing our separate daily habits as people who get married do, toothpaste left on the counter or put away. Squeezed from the bottom of the tube or middle, etc. It didn’t take long to find out. We had just gotten back and started unpacking when I had to use the toilet. I walked into the bath and began to pee. Carol walked in to put away her toiletries from the trip. I thought to myself, “Maybe Monte-Carlo wasn’t such a good idea.”
The rest of the month was a productive month for writing. In a week, we would be leaving for home in the states. At breakfast I said, “I was thinking beca
