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 It might sound terrible to admit that I've been lying to the Captain for weeks, but I have, and I'd do it again.  Alison and a few of the Vielees were in on the deception to surprise him for Father's Day by sneaking Alison home from Lafayette where she is doing a summer internship and taking a class. We'd seen quite a lot of her, actually, as there have been reasons to run up to get her things, so he wasn't expecting to see her. I'd told him she would at least call him and that maybe I would go down to Columbus with him and he could shop at the outlet mall for work clothes and we could stop at 450 North Brewing. He and the rest of his colleagues have to go back to the office to work, and he needs clothes. He's already made a bargain shoppers' deal with the Devil by finding huge discounts on nice suits, but he's still looking for some items. We had plans to go to Fletcher's high school graduation party on Saturday. I had informed him that he coul

You know you have good friends when you come across a photo from an Indy 500 party and you see your husband and of your very best friends in the photo over there   🠊🠊🠊🠊🠊🠊🠊🠊🠊🠊  and you just laugh and say, yep: that's Amy and Jeff. You know you have good friends when you are 100 percent comfortable staying behind and napping on the deck swing while most of the party goes off for a boat ride. You know you have good friends when you are the life of the boating party one minute and the next, you're sleeping on the bow and they don't let you forget it.  🠋🠋🠋🠋🠋🠋🠋🠋🠋 🠋 You know you have good friends when you mention at a dinner party that you're taking a fan up to your kid whose summer apartment has only a window box air conditioner and her bedroom is so far away that the rooms are 20 degrees apart in air temperature and they say, "Hey, we have a window unit we aren't using; she can borrow it. You know you have good friends when they have difficult