I think he believed he should have done something to keep Francine alive, but eventually Mom convinced him that it was not his responsibility. At any rate, that’s the good thing about the end of the world. It keeps throwing new stuff at you to keep you from thinking about the old stuff.Dad always had recovery option number two. When in doubt, keep busy. He kept us shooting a few rounds a day until he was sure that we were competent with the guns. Then he stopped the regular training to save ammunition and made us pick up all our spent ammo casings on the off chance that we could reload them in the future. More to the point, he had sent Kirk over to invite the Carroll’s to our camp, on their land, for the 4th of July. In order to prepare for the occasion, Dad decided that we needed a picnic table. Of course, that meant more chopping, more cutting, and a new brand of wooden torture. In order to make the table and its benches flat, we learned to split logs into rough planks, and employed a variety of tools to smooth out the broad sides.
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