" Fine. I'll leave here and get home."I packed up some papers, let the receptionist know that I was leaving and went out to my elderly Safari (over 30...,000 klicks!) and drove home. I took my time.At lunch, Chuck and I talked about leaving Perth. I'd been here for over 23 years, and he for just over 25. Both of his kids were in Sydney, as was Patrick. And Sarah? The CSIRO wanted him at Black Mountain. The Museum wanted me. I was now 54, he was only a bit younger. Here we'd get older and greyer.. As I opened my e-mails there wasone from the woman who I had come looking for. As usual it was a warmletter and I smiled as I read through the document. When ever she wroteto me inside I felt my true self a little girl. There were only a fewclothes inside the case and a set of girl's underwear.I quickly put the underwear on after showering and brushing out my longhair. I sat on the bed and replied to her and saw that time was marchingon. I phoned room service to ask them if there was a good. You know how ... when ... biological life dies and is compressed by heat and pressure under the ground and becomes coal and oil and such?”“Oh, yes, I regularly harvest it,” his spouse said, nodding. “You need to be careful, though. It causes planets to retain heat – among other side effects.”My wife is older than the biological concept of sexual reproduction, Lou thought for the second time. It still sounded like a bad joke in his head – not real, not something concrete. But hearing her. “Say, did I ever happen to mention a certain Top Speller Prize?”“Yes, my first day here.”“The thing is, see, Tim Brown spelled Arkansas...”“Anything else, Birdie?”“Well, one minor thing. The Mumster thought you might have some ideas on it.”I explained the McGovern condom, omitting, courtesy, the video segment of the narrative. But Ms. Sloane hadn’t cleaned all those fish bones for nothing, “What aren’t you telling me, Birdie?”Now this redheaded phenom is four years younger than yrs. truly,.