I also admired that she respected my family so much that she tried to keep her presence minimal.We were both exhausted, so we had a nice, friendly con...ersation over a glass of milk and went upstairs where we parted company for the night. After my shower, I hit the bed and fell asleep immediately, feeling good that I had helped a nice young lady out that day.I thought I was dreaming; indeed I had great difficulty distinguishing real life from the wispy dream like feel of a soft warm body. If I couldn't tell my beloved, Percy, then who could I tell."I refused to go to my mother's burial." Tears clouded my eyes as I thought back to that dreadful day. "My father needed me and I wasn't there for him. I've never seen her headstone, brought her flowers," my voice retreated to a whisper, "or said goodbye."My dearest Carolyn ... fear and regret eat away at one's soul. You must right this wrong." I can't. Don't you understand? I can't go back in time."You can visit your mother now. Take. And it’s not real, anyway, because I like spending time with you.”“You’re passing up a chance at wild, crazy, uninhibited, no-strings-attached sex with TWO girls, in favor of sitting here cuddling with me?”“Yes.”“You may be a keeper after all.”October 18, 1981, McKinley, Ohio“You’re sure about this?”“Yes. After last night, it makes sense, doesn’t it?”“OK, then let’s go.”Angie and I left the dorm and headed for my car for the drive to Saint Michael the Archangel Church. She’d shown up at my door. It takes the Earth roughly four palm-widths to rotate so that the sun goes from overhead at Hostigos to overhead in Baytown."As you go further south, the sun moves higher and higher in the sky at High Sun until you reach the equator, where it would be directly overhead at High Sun. And, I might add, that doesn't change, either."We have not explored south of the God-King's realm, because ships that try to go past his lands are destroyed. His lands are so huge and ships are so slow, they are.