She was no tree hugger, she found such hippy sensibilities too airy-fairy and she was far too down-to-earth for that but, today, it was as if she coul... feel the life force within them. She went over, laid her hands on the rough bark and, as she did so, she felt a connection between them. They were but parts of a greater whole and the power that joined them was a physical joy.Brushing aside such silly nonsense she pulled herself together and headed back to the office.As she got ready for bed. ”“Yes. I’ll get my diploma and then be laboring for two years.”Andy laughed. “Will Mitchell be your Leah?”“If so, I’ve no notion who Rachel will be.” They all laughed. “Tell me about Cat.”“Oh, dear,” began Sybil. “She stopped coming here several months ago. She said she was having a fine time ‘partying.’ Then she said one day that she’d met a bunch of foreign students. Then she mentioned she’s seen ‘Edward’ and then that Eddie’d invited her on a cruise to Auckland.”“That’s all?”“Well,. You still have my hair as you manipulate my head as if to show me that you have the control, as though you are playing with the buttons of something forbidden to you as a child. My eyes, my open mouth and the hot breaths that waste themselves, show you how wild I feel, how badly I need you, and how much I want you to need me like you needed no other. “Please” I whisper and I don’t know what I’m begging for, you don’t know either and fuck fuck fuck you’re just going to have to keep trying until. I thought of calling home for a rescue from my predicament. As I reached into my purse to take my cellphone out, I felt a certain dampness. That's when I realized I had taken my fabric purse, which was obviously not waterproof. The cellphone was also wet, and had conked off. Great, I thought to myself. Stuck here without a working cellphone on a highway late at night. Some vehicles were passing by. I thought of flagging one down. But there had been so many news stories recently about a group of.