QUOTE : Here, honey—sit down. Tell me about it. Did you have an easy time?” “I had a very long time. It wasn’t so much hard as it took forever. I was starting to think she’d never come. And John almost drove me out of my mind. After about twenty hours of labor, I was afraid he was going to go in after her.” “He must have been pretty wound up,” Joe said. “Is he pestering you for another one yet?” “Oh no, I think he’s going to lighten up on all those children he thought he had to have. The birth was kind of hard on John.” “Really?” Joe said, surprised. “Yeah, he doesn’t like to see me uncomfortable. And it turns out that this big man who can shoot and dress animals or carry wounded soldiers off the battlefield doesn’t do too well if there’s a drop of blood within ten feet of his wife.” “He’s a little on the protective side,” Joe confirmed.