"Give me thirty minutes.As Vickie stood watching his progress, Laurel motioned to Yuki and the two retired to the dining room where they spoke in low ...oices for several minutes."Thirty-seven minutes, I must be getting old," grinned Donnie as Andrea's financial records flashed onto the screen."There are three women here who don't think so," smiled Vickie. "Now what can we do?" What do you want to do? I'm into her complete files, personal and business." Does she own stocks, bonds, anything like. After six years the ex-pat got him a pass to go out, drove him, took him to visit his families graves, wife and baby. Seems that seven years ago the local Imam of his village was on form and the young men left riled up enough to go visit the people from Médecins Sans Frontières. They shot up the place, his was seriously injured, his his wife and his newborn child both died even though he shielded them with his body.Roadside bomb took out the ex-pats vehicle. When the guys closed up the. “Actually, they had more. If she had stayed here, they wouldn’t have had that. And they belonged together. You said so yourself.”“He called his relationship with Birgit a ‘silly schoolboy crush’,” Elyse said.“Steve Adams!” Kathy said firmly. “You know that’s not true!”“Sure it is,” I said. “I’m not saying that I didn’t love her, but I was fifteen! What did I know about love?”“A hell of a lot more than most of us,” Kathy said. “If I had a clue about it back then, we’d be together.”I sighed,. " You're right. I may have to have some heart to heart talks with her when I need help."We changed the subject and relaxed on the patio. As I was sitting there, I was thinking about our relationship. I still felt like she was keeping me at a distance. She was ok to be my best friend, but not quite ready for the boyfriend/girlfriend relationship. I was hoping that one day, she would be.Once we were both ready to fall asleep, we got up and headed upstairs for the night. We headed to our.