[bbgapril]

Later, when I spoke to my wife about this, she told me something I did not for-see. She had known, but she and my daughter did not tell me because they knew what I would want to do. I told her I would have hurt them worse at the time I had them in hand if I had known.
She said she knew that too, but again, she knew how that would have turned out. She told me she loved me enough to keep me out of jail, and besides, it wasn't a fair fight anyway. Four drunk kids verses me, her money would always be on me, no matter what.
Then she opened her shirt to reveal the first purple heart I received hanging around her neck and reminded me how I got that, and few other pieces of metal. Here I spent cooking for my heroes that morning, and I was told I would always be her hero every day.