Thankfully she keptthat to herself.I looked at the other people in the store. None were male.None male! I thought that wishing I wasn't there. Girls a...dmothers. Another was in front of a mirror in her own slip.I turned away feeling faint.We settled on a light pink with smocking for my firstdress. A classic little girl's design with puffed sleeves,Peter Pan collar and a skirt suitable for petticoats. Itfell just an inch or two past those slips, which fell a fewinches above the knee.It really was. " Thank you, Mark. You made my day," I smiled. He had indeed made my day."He really did that?" Ali said in surprise. "He came to your office and apologized?" Yes he did. And it wasn't some half-hearted apology, either. I was impressed. I felt really good when he left. It was one of those anger things that I could finally put away for good." I'm so glad, Grime. I can see it had a big effect on you. I'm happy for you ... and me too. It's another thing that's gone right since the accident." So how. She could sense a number of her children converging on this city, coming to enforce the one and only true law that bound them. In the holds of ships, the cargo bays of planes and in the backs of trucks they moved ever closer, as cold and implacable as a glacier. Had humans witnessed any of the titanic conflicts that would have ensued if Arthur had still been alive upon the arrival of the others, no mortal would have rested until every last nook and cranny of the planet had been thoroughly. "I know it's boring," said Gary ... the junior division instructor. "We want you to be able to find the right line underwater if you have to." Muscle memory," he called it. It all boiled down to repetitive behavior.It Was boring.We had drop-outs.We had Chicago fathers with more money than sense who bought Snipes, Stars or Lightnings for their precious Timmy, Holly or Billy dropouts.And just like a few of the newly licensed auto drivers dies because they didn't understand physics, Pentwater Lake.