" Leon, we're not invalids yet! Spread your wings and fly!" Okay! Kara, or should I call you Kirahani, I'll go! At least for a visit." I'm glad! Wonde...ful! How about you Lois?" Personally I'm scared to go. Well, not scared to go, scared about going and then trying to come back. My Ph.D. thesis was in reproductive endocrinology. If the government declares martial law, and they well might, they might try to draft me. I'll be just the kind of researcher they'll need. What will they think when they. They would stop by the house and inform us that they would be out in our woods for several days. It was just on one of those occasions that this story takes place. There were four of them, planning to fish. Only two of them were locals, the other two were much younger and rather small, evidently from the city. They stopped by the house and asked permission to go to the creek to camp for several days and to fish, of course mom agreed. Frequently these campers gave us fish that they had caught. " That is something that I can't promise, but I will give you what I can find. I just wish you good luck with it."Four days later, ET was back with a book for me to photograph. We went well past our normal shut down time so that I could get the whole book photographed before we quit for the night. ET was very patient with me, which I appreciated. Both of us were ready to collapse from exhaustion by the time we finished.Jenny looked over the photos and skimmed through them, her face getting. "Certainly, Ethel. Is there something in particular?" I have cancer, Father. The doctors say I have maybe six months. I am not afraid of dying. Indeed, I am feeling my age, and ready to move on. But the pain is already significant, will get worse, I'm told, and I'm reluctant to resort to opiates." I see. Would it be best for you to sit in a pew as I pray?" Thank you, Father. Standing is possible, but kneeling is getting difficult."I guided her to a nearby pew, and went to fetch the chrismarium,.