The lights have just faded up and I have gone through my daily ritual of personal housekeeping. I am expecting her to give me a list of my tasks for t...day. I have been back at the Dacha for several days now. Alana and Vitali do not need my help for the time being and I have picked up my routine once more. Today we will run outside and I will go to the gym for a 'shoulder and pectoral muscles and heavy weights' session but Neena surprises me. "Tomorrow, rabinya, you will be examined on the. ’ I opened it and found a jewelry box inside. I opened that and saw a gold pendant. I gasped and picked it up to look at it closer. It was engraved on both sides. One side was just my name, Sally R. Brandt. The other side said, ‘To the daughter of my heart, know that I will always be with you.’ I opened it up and saw a picture of a young Uncle Dar without the beard and wearing a military dress uniform. I looked at him and started crying. All I could do was put it on with the medal I still wore. I don't believe so, but he has beaten her badly a couple times. It was really this last time, when she was trying to save me, that he started going off on her and I said it was enough and called 911. That set him off even more, but somehow he knew the police were on their way. After beating me, calling me all kinds of names, smashing things up, he ran out the back door." Well knowing he beat a child like that takes him down one more notch in my book. He's going to wish the police got him. I found a table in a dark corner, ordered a drink and began watching the show. I was thoroughly enjoying the show. The first drink disappeared quickly and I ordered a second. The girls were amazing! Some only lip-synched their songs but most sang them live and they were very, very good! I sat at my table, sipping my drink, mesmerized by the show. I felt so at ease, so in my element. My spell was broken when the waiter brought a third drink, one I hadn’t ordered, explaining it was from a.