“Dawn, are you still feeling sick?” I heard my mom saying from outside of the room. She came in, having just gotten off work, still in her work cl...thes. She looked so beautiful: strawberry blonde hair pulled back in a pony tail, black wire rim glasses with those fierce green hazel eyes, and long beautiful legs wrapped in black nylon’s. (I think about her now and I get wet; my mom is so beautiful!) “Come here honey; let me feel your head.” Mom sat down next to me and gave me a hug and put her. I can’t tell you how glad I am to see you out and about. Is Liz here, too?”His voice wasn’t slurred in the slightest. It suddenly dawned on me that what happened to Liz (and to me) had deeply affected a lot of people.I gestured to where Liz was standing with Lucas’s wife.He was wearing his trademark grin when he turned back around.“You guys should bring the kids out this weekend,” I offered. “It’s the Fourth and I think Liz might be planning something.”“Yeah,” Lucas said. “I got a gig Monday in. "Oh, sure. I was genetically engineered for maximum sexual pleasure. We all are in the future. It's just one of the spiffs. Come inside I'll show you." Colin followed Aura into the peanut butter sandwich's door. Inside, not a twinkling light or a computer screen. "You like? 1964 ranch style modern. Not cheap copies either, this stuff is all authentic." Colin stared at the overstuffed Archie Bunker chair and the plain gold colored couch with dismay. They didn't seem to have. We arranged that we would write one E-mail a week, except for emergency. I must emphasize again that it was very difficult for both of us, but we accomplished.The symposium was a big success for our firm, because a Finnish mining company wanted to use our machines and instruments for nickel mining. They developed a special mining technique, which uses bacteria to extract the nickel from the ore and drilling instruments were needed to yield the nickel solution from the deep. I went to Finland.