Long blonde hair, blue eyes and a body that was so inproportion to her 5`4 height it was awesome. On top of that she wasintelligent and such a lovely ...irl. Nothing stuck up about her and if shecould help anybody at all, she would.So what went wrong? Richie started taking her for granted, stoppedappreciating her. She told me when she eventually broke up with him ayear ago that she wasn't even sure if he remotely liked her anymore.That was when Richie's popularity went downhill. He couldn't get. The President ran for reelection and won easily, but I was too deeply involved in my work to pay close attention. Other than taking the day to attend the inauguration, I kept my nose to the grindstone and stayed busy. Hawk was very popular. His charisma and kind but firm personality won his party a number of new seats in the Senate and almost forty more in Congress. That was a lot. When Hawk appointed someone these days, the Senate confirmed them without much discussion because the party had an. Her: are you free now?Me: yeah, whats up?Her: I need to buy some items for the house , can you show me where the nearest stores are?Me: yeah ( I start pointing directions but then realise it would be easier to take her there and obviously more fun ;) )Me: I can take you on my bike. (I had a r15)Her: I am afraid to sit in it, lets go in my scooty.Me : laughing. As long as I drive. Hope your parents are ok with it.Her : they came up with the idea of asking u. They seem to like u.Me: how about u?. But all of this was lost on me. I was “there”, of course, but not really there. I burned a little O2, generated a little body heat, required some changes of bandages, produced a bit of urine through the catheter, all of which they carefully monitored, but I was a lump of meat.The medical team stayed in touch with my sister, Ella, and at the end of the first week, surrendering to the obvious had suggested that she might want to come and say goodbye – and, not coincidentally, sign the necessary.