We didn't even notice that mom took his car to work. We wouldn't have thought anything of it if we had. We would just have assumed that he was taking ...er car in for service or something.That evening, dad didn't come home. Mom explained that he had to go out of town overnight on business. It would come out later that he had taken mom's car to a body shop across the state line, almost two hundred miles away, and given a disreputable old man three times the going rate to repair it overnight.What. .."Kim tried to fill her friend with hope, with the idea that she could, and would, get past everything that had happened to her over that last seven years. She helped Eloisa stand up. Eloisa, still sobbing, hugged Kim tight, almost intimately, to the point the American felt a bit uncomfortable. Kim felt Eloisa's naked body pressed tightly against her own, her companion's breasts flattening against her chest. Eloisa pressed her head on Kim's shoulder, which quickly became wet from her friend's. ? You know, just because the legalized recreational use this past election--" DO it!" she snapped. She chuckled, surprised at herself, checked for prying ears again, then leaned in close. "I'm serious, Bobby. What ever you write in that book will come true." Oh ... kay," he said, his tone dismissive and doubtful. "Done."She stared at him for a moment, searching his face for signs that he understood and believed her. She wasn't sure; these days, with all that had happened to her -- happened. And when I tried to enquire his situation with a sister, she told us that he has multiple fractures in the back and hip bone. His left was broken.This broke her even more and the sister asked her to control herself as other patients too would be getting disturbed.After almost 20 mins she stopped crying and she was resting her head on my shoulder pulling my tee. I can never understand or even assume what she was going through but it was 1 tough situation to be in.After all the x rays and CT.