"Yes," she grinned back."God, did you make him as small as Daddy?" Smaller." Oh no. What'd he say?" Well, he was pretty angry at first. Insisted that ...hey all be 'repaired' as he called it, or hidden forever in the swamp."We settled in together as we always had, into a comfortable love, a friendship we'd formed as children. We had ten days before I had to be back for school opening in Savannah and my sister used all ten days in trying to convince me to move back home."You're all alone down. An hour later with the dogs sounding closer I was wondering what happened to the traps Ling had set? I no sooner had that thought when I heard the explosion in the distance and the sound of the dogs died out. It was only a temporary reprieve though as I heard them start back up in a few minutes no doubt being urged on by their handlers. I did have one bit of good news at least to my own way of thinking, it sounded like there were a lot less of them. Within five minutes I heard the second. In the next apartment to ours lived a single Army Captain assigned to Ft Lewis directly next to the Air Base. Frank Stammers was a staff officer to a Major General so usually only worked 9 till 5 Monday to Friday so got ratherbfriendly with Joe and I as he adored my British accent. At first he said he was my big brother and promised to look after me for joe while Joe worked at night.Frank was a true gentleman to begin with, but often brought a six pack of Coors beer in which I got a taste for. I saw my friend Meenakshi waiting for me as we planned something a day ago. Her mom and dad went to her elder sister’s house and were supposed to return in evening so we planned to watch a movie together. I reached her house at 10:30 and we started talking and giggled like old friends meeting after long time. After some time she offered me milkshake and we enjoyed drinking chilled shake in that summer and started watching movie “Unfaithful”. After some time I started feeling drowsy and my eyes.