Looking up at Billy one evening I announced, "We need a vacation!"
     Glancing up at me from his computer, "Where to?"
     "I was thinking of us taking a cruise for our wedding anniversary. What do you think?"
     Closing his laptop, he gave me a grin, "I could do for a vacation! We had a lot of fun on our last one!"
     Smiling back at him, I nodded my agreement. During our last vacation, taken six months after he returned from Iraq, I'd seen the old Billy shining through, enough so, it had helped sustain my ever depleting supply of hope. We had the money, or would, after our taxes, why not use that money for us instead of bills for a change?
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