prequel to this story! Years Ago… She was my girl and I was her man. The only thing that scared me, was her dad. It wasn’t the kind of scary, where I feel I’d never live up to a fathers expectations for dating his daughter. This was a different kind of fear. It was the kind of fear one gets when standing in the presence of evil. *** “Thomas Michael Gardner, you can’t be serious. How can you think of getting married, you’re only seventeen!” I stood at the bottom of the stairs and leaned against the…
