. none of them are and Ursula hates Russians ... there is a history there." He smiled a sly smile, "I wouldn't worry about Wendy ... you were checked ...t birth. Neither of you have the gene. Your children would have the same risk as unrelated parents."Somewhere down the line, all Finns have the possibility of common ancestors. It's isolated."This is Finland ... we live next door to Sweden. If you can believe it ... they have fewer morals than Finns."Finland is pretty damn cold in the winter.. Most of the guests, about fifteen of them, had to walk. The funeral guy led Shania and me to a limousine. We followed the black station wagon with the casket through the narrow roads until we arrived at the tented gravesite. The pile of fresh earth was covered with a black tarpaulin. Six of the biker guys pulled the casket out and rolled it on an expandable cart toward the open hole that awaited it. Shania and I were ushered to a row of chairs right next to the railing that surrounded the hole.. I don’t care how strong, smart, and confident a man is, that phrase will strike terror into his heart. Very seldom does anything good come after hearing those words. ‘Sure Kitty what about?’ I dreaded the answer. ‘We have had a great time these past few weeks and I care about you very much,’ she said. ‘But,’ I questioned. I knew a zinger was coming. ‘But you are leaving in a few days and I’ll still be here. I won’t follow you from duty station to duty station. And it’s almost impossible to. It suddenly struck her – what if she'd been stopped for a routine traffic infraction? She didn't even have her driver's license. And of course, she had no way to control the potential officer's reaction. She thought in those terms now: How would she control the people she was dealing with?That little problem would get solved tomorrow, somehow. She didn't even want to think about Marc-Us or any of the MPC projects tonight. For right now, she'd take a bubble bath, play with Spats, and think about.