The opportunity represented a significant step up in his career and, since it was near his home town and having few ties in CA, he accepted at once. H... transferred a few weeks later and moved into a decent apartment in North Raleigh which had good access to The Triangle. Setting up the project was pretty gruelling and he was working long hours with no time for any social life for several months. At last the project was running like clockwork and he found himself thinking about his old friends. I made it to my car in record time and shed my jacket. I loved this car as much as I could love a material possession. There were two reasons for that. Firstly I had always wanted a Jaguar and it was my dream car and everything I had hoped it would be. Secondly and most important I had bought the car with my wife’s insurance money after her death a little over a year ago from cancer. She had made me promise to do that, as she knew I had always wanted one but would not spend the money on it. She. I had spent ten weeks of Advanced Individual Training in a hospital and I recognized the noise as belonging to a heart monitor. Oh yeah, I had been wounded and I was in a hospital. I wonder how bad it is? Would I be sent home to Indiana, or just back to the states to complete my enlistment?I kept getting closer to the surface, and the next thing I noticed was that it was cool. I knew that the Mash unit didn't have air conditioning. Was I in DaNang? How long had I been out?"I think he is. It was a fragile thing if one of us had decided to dislike another. It bothered me more that I was the one disliked. I broached the subject with Alia that night as we readied for bed. ‘Have I offended Mylle, my love?’ I asked as I undid the stays on her dress. Alia seemed hesitant to answer. ‘No, not directly,’ Alia skirted the issue. Now she was not looking at me. I had done something, and I did not know what. ‘My love, I must know what disturbs Mylle, and now you,’ I insisted, ‘I feel it.