En endral engaluku therinthavargal elllam busil vanthu kondu irunthaargal, share autovil ondraaga amarnthom. En thol pataiyai eduthu aval mulai meethu...vaithu konden, aval mulai kaambu en kaiyil kuthiyathu.Aval mulai irukamaaga irunthathai vaithe aval moodaga irukiraal enbathai therinthu konden, pinbu naangal kalluri sendrom. Andru iravu naan nee indru moodaga thaane irunthaai endru keten? Aval ilaiye unaku eppadi theriyum endru ketal? Naan un mulaiyai idikum pozhuthu therinthu konden endru. Your mom uses the ice pack though. She packs it in his lunch when he goes to work.”I shrugged. “So long as someone’s getting some use out of it,” I said lightly. She hadn’t mentioned Billy and Linda’s reactions, so I didn’t know if they’d just rolled their eyes and moved on or if they’d blown up and she was keeping that part of the conversation from getting out of control.We got home and I unpacked. The apartment seemed nicer and I noticed that there were a lot of little touches like a couple. He did sit, and I was dying to ask him a thousand questions when I realized he looked uncomfortable. "What's wrong?" I asked. He looked down and answered in such a quiet voice I may have imagined the answer entirely. "I want to know why you never let anyone take care of you." I was shocked and slightly pissed. Who was this guy to come and ask me a personal question like that? And then as suddenly as my anger came it went and with it. I realized he had a real interest in me and it was not just. Their leader was a Staff Sergeant named Butler, James Aron Butler. He was a short man at 5’-7’’ tall and about 150 pounds. He had a mop of red hair and was sunburned, as were all three of his men. What he lacked in stature, he more than made up in attitude and spunk. His spirit not only encouraged his own men, but also the Marines, who were tired of coming up with nothing on our sweeps. He was a very can-do guy; even Bob liked him.Things started improving during the fourth week of sweeps. Early.