Chapter 3

The Seven in One come and go without notice ... it should be disconcerting. I am used to it. They were mom when mom was gone.

Then there’s Alice. Alice Lovissa Olsen. Umh ... Alice Lovissa Dent. Adam’s twin brother Everett’s wife.

She used to live in my half of the house. Daddy’s half is a walk to the hot tub. Alice’s backdoor opens on to the deck and the tub. Both kayaks are on her side ... now my side.

Alice moved when she married Eve. Now I have direct access to the tub and mom’s kayak. I leave Alice’s kayak alone.

Last year, when I was 11, I’d come home from school and Alice would be in the river ... at least I think she was ... her kayak was gone.

Maybe a little explanation is in order? Hmmm?

Bud Field is the home of Austin Helicopter Tours ... and Adam and Selene Dent’s hangar and home. The home is four 40 by 12 by 10 containers set two east and two west with a canvas covered concrete pad between them. On the pad is a Douglas AD-2Q aircraft. The pad is big enough to turn the Spad 360 degrees and not bump the aircraft into anything solid. Big ... really big ... huge. (A line from the movie ‘Pretty Woman’ ... daddy uses it so often he should pay a royality fee.) I learned it from Daddy.