When the moment finally came that I had to leave -- or have to come up with a cock-n-bull excuse for sneaking back in after dark ... we had a few minu...es of reflection time with each other, and said we'd have a special holiday meeting as soon as we could ... she lovingly said it might be the Christmas she had been waiting for...Mercifully, Friday was a day that drained me very little, after that afternoon of hard loving ... so by the evening it occurred to me that I had heard NADA from this. "Yep! Over a centimeter, in just two months! I'm finally doing it! After all the decades at Antelope Freeway and the arctic, I'm finally aging again!" Isabelle finally let go of her mom and headed back to her chair. "How's dad doing?" Fine," said A'moth as she sat back at her desk. "... still hanging out at Acapulco. It's funny. He and I joked once, about how he'd like to spend some time there. But I don't think he ever planned on nine years..."At the end of her college years at the Genetic. Trust me. High five.”“Oh no, not here,” She said.“Yes, here. For old times' sake!”Christian and Ashley did a high five-low five combo which ended up in them both slapping their buttocks.“God, I missed that,” Christian said.The two went to college together and even dated for a while before Ashley got her current boyfriend.“Christian! Back to work,” A deep voice said.He promptly went back, and whispered to her in a sing-song voice:“That's my uncle. You've got this.”“Ashley Mendes?" Mr. Bagwell. " she thought, "Who in their right minds does anything at 5:00 a.m.? I don't even get up to go to work for another two hours!" But she got up and got moving, dressing in the clothes he had laid out for her and coming downstairs to eat. "We will need to get going. It will take us about an hour and a half to get out to the fishing grounds. The boat is already loaded up. As soon as breakfast is done I want you to pack us a lunch and we will head out," he said. "Yes Sir," she said excited about.