But I played a lot of pool, drank a number of screwdrivers, and got a little blitzed. At last call, at 2:00 a.m., I knew I was in no shape to drive. I...got one of my new acquaintances to agree to give me a lift, then told one of the bartenders that I’d be back to pick up my car the following day. When my new friend dropped me off, I was wondering what John might be up too. I’d had so much to drink that I staggered back to his backyard, literally zigzagging and seeing double. It was about 2:30. ” Drew stopped and became intensely interested in a stick he found on the ground. Waving it around he ran off whooping and pretending to shoot.I walked over to where my son was still straddling the bike frame standing on his tiptoes so he wouldn’t crush himself on the crossbar. I looked at his torn slacks and scraped knee.“Why didn’t you come in the house when you got hurt?” I asked.“Um ... Betts got hurt.” He said that as if it explained everything. I suppose it did.“Jessica, I appreciate you. That had been full of such fun activities as running twenty miles with a full pack and voluminous clothing in the heat of the day. The evenings had consisted of ferocious unarmed combat, not with each other, but their instructors. After ten days, both girls had been exhausted and tougher than ever. Now Sammy was in Hospital and Gloria was being trained on her own and she wasn't enjoying it one little bit!For seven hours now she had been up to her neck in freezing cold water and naked. It was. I can’t speak for my sisters—three older and one younger. They were always good girls from what I could tell. I doubted very much that they could get away with anything under either my mother’s or my father’s watchful eye. For my part, I can’t remember a moment that I accepted Jesus as my Lord and Savior. It had simply always been that way. There was no point of decision at which I turned from evil to salvation. I had believed every word of the gospel my mother read to us at night from the time.