<p>I love the pirate thing.</p>
<p>Around the August before last, (during Plebe summer~I was a wreck:-), very seriously and with tears in my eyes, (we must have been watching Lifetime 
I turned to my husband and asked if there were things that he had wanted to do that being married and a father had kept him from. I waited, as he summoned up the courage to tell me that secret passion that I had prevented him from attaining. He paused long, looked me squarely in the eyes, and said, in the most straightforward way,…</p>
<p>“I always wanted to be a pirate.”</p>
<p>After a brief pause to let it all sink in, I laughed in relief. Since then, whenever I see a bit of pirate paraphenalia I pick it up, and try to let him live a little bit of his dream. </p>
<p>Arrgggghhhh!!! Indeed!</p>