We put everything aside, for a night, to go out and have a nice dinner. Local restaurants, twice a year, offer a 3 course meal for $30 dollars a person. Good restaurants, and excellent food. We would save up all our quarters just so we go out when this special week would roll around.

And it was nice. Good food, no fighting.

But now that it is over, nothing has changed.

I'm still alone, and will be heading to bed shortly...alone.

Alone and very sad.