"Frank, please be honest, are you seriously thinking about taking me as you travelling companion next year or do you think I am too young for you?"He ...esitated for a moment before telling her "I guess I am worried that you might be a bit too young and that you would get bored with me after a few weeks, even though I really like you and enjoy your company. What's more, you certainly make a very beautiful companion." Thanks, Frank, but I don't mind and you probably are a little bit right.. Patti believed in LIFE. While she had a lot of her strength left, but knew what was coming, she jabbed his chest with a fingernail and said ‘You’d better find someone else mister, or I’m coming back to haunt you, got it?’ Thomas kissed her forehead and said ‘There will never be anyone as special to me as you, got it?’ Patti murmured something he couldn’t quite make out and fell asleep. He cried then, long and hard, unashamedly. She was gone less than three months later. Thomas’ mind returned to. "I think I do," she said to her. "The gate in the fence over there. Idon't think that will open for either of us. Not if this place is whatyou say it is," she paused and readjusted her grip on the half limpwoman and started toward the open back door looming out of the shadowof the patio shade."Y' have t' take me 'cross the threshold," she said. "I can't go'cross myself. That was part of what he did t' keep us weak. T' makesure I couldn't get out once he locked me in here with her." You keep. She couldn't just walk off while Charlie was buying her a drink and then block him from her Facebook page. There were many girls who'd probably do that, but Jane wasn't one of them. But diplomacy and tact were not skills that Jane had acquired to the extent that this was a situation she could easily wriggle out of. How do you tell someone that, well, what you wanted in a man was someone, you know, a bit taller and, let's be frank, not so horribly disfigured?But then, Jane reminded herself,.