Our new year began in a most wonderful way.  Friday night, January 1, our family traveled to the airport to meet Lee Parish, who has been courting our daughter, Julia.  Lee had only met Julia, up to this point, and so it is probably pretty safe to say that Lee was nervous getting off that airplane, and we were nervous, as we stood there waiting for him.

Three days later, he and George had a heart to heart talk for several hours, and less than 30 minutes after they returned to the house, Lee and …