The time was 10:41 am. She slid behind the wheel of her RAV4 and started the engine. Her nausea was intense, so bad that she had suffered dry-heaves i... the kitchen, and then again in the back yard. Diet Coke helped, but only marginally.She’d encountered surprisingly little difficulty facing the gate against the rear wall. She couldn’t see the line, but locating the ¼” wide edge proved easy enough. Before heading out front, she’d marked the gate’s location with a dull penny on the ground.Her. Matthews father was not so understanding. Matthews father beat him to a bloody pulp, told him he was a good-for-nothing faggot, and was summarily arrested for abusing his son. Alex cried when she heard what had happened to him. She thought it was all her fault. She visited him once in the hospital, but he was bandaged and bloody and sleeping. She cried then, too, and couldnt bear to see him again like that. Matthew was in the hospital for a month, and was much worse for the wear after he got. We chatted for a while watching the guys play darts – they were both in their thirties and every time the walked past us they looked down at her cleavage and they seemed quiet friendly eventually asking us if we would like a game to which we agreed. They were called Tom and Terry and were builders, Tom asked her if he could take her coat and she replied no its ok and when he said you must be hot she just said no I’m naked underneath! They both laughed assuming she was joking but she just said. The area between the training base and Lewistown is bespattered with mountains ... the Highwoods, a range dead east of the runway sports at least one hundred B-17s crash sites and a few of the 23,000 aircrew who died learning to fly in the USA during the war.For every 11 aircrew who died in the European Theater three more crew died in training crashes before they ever got overseas. Directly south of Lewistown are the two divisions of Snowy Mountains. West are the Little Belts and the Big.