"She's a beautiful girl," said Isobel as she cradled their wizened pallid daughter in her arms. "She has her father's nose." Really?" wondered Alex wh... could see no family resemblance at all.Iris had a very limited repertoire. She cried, she gurgled, she burped and she repeatedly clutched her fingers around anything that could be clutched. When Iris wasn't eating or drinking or demanding that she should be, she gazed around her with huge eyes that suggested volumes of understanding but which. From the show we went to play poker at a ten dollar table. It must have been our night because with in 20 minutes I was up $800 and my wife was up $400. I looked at my watch and saw that it was 3:45 am and knew it was time.As we got back to the hotel my wife worried that we might be seen in the elevator and I said most people were asleep or gambling and besides that it would make it more exciting. As we walked across the lobby to the elevators there was only about six or seven people out in the. I moved out of the way as she tended to Jack’s arm. Those bells and alarms were real, as one of us had pulled the IV from his arm. The nurse stuck him with a new needle then reset the machine.She smiled at me as she said, “He is all yours now.”“Jack, are you OK?” I asked with tears in my eyes.“I am OK Ann just a bullet in me, that is all,” Jack replied.“A bullet that almost killed you son and a half inch lower it would have,” an older male voice said.I turned to see Captain Bob standing in the. A light was on in the kitchen area that shined into the living room. Sean always left it on, so that Dylan had a way of seeing his way to the hall and to his room. Dylan slipped his shirt off as he quietly crept down the hallway to his room past Sean’s room and the bathroom. As he passed the bathroom the faint smell of some unknown flower filled his senses. He lingered there and absorbed the trick his mind was playing on him. He knew he was lonely for Jessie he just didn’t.