You must always remember. You're part of the equation."?* * *They didn't know much about Ranger Jack. No one did. Like so many others,he seeme... to have ended up in Hope Crossing by chance and circumstance.Unlike so many others, he offered no back story to explain where he'dbeen or what he'd done before.One popular theory was that he'd been a veteran of one of the MiddleEastern wars that seemed to be so popular with our ruling classes theselast thirty years or so. There were rumors that. ‘You cannot know how much I missed you.’ ‘Daisies are my favorite. How did you know? And we missed you a lot, too,’ Anna asked happily smelling the flowers. ‘They seemed to be right.’ Chapter Twelve A few days later, Aunt Katherine’s daughter Clara came for a surprise visit. She was a lively and lovely blonde, self-conscious woman about Chris’s age and they were joking around that they were fiancées. Anna told Clara that she could move to the attic out of her room but Clara loved the attic and. I meant it when I said 'wow' - I was goingto go for something a little more worthy of the situation, but... well,you kind of made me lose my train of thought, and 'wow' was all I couldcome up with."I blushed and smiled, despite myself. Apparently I was a sucker forcompliments. "You always did have a way with the words, when it comes towomen," I teased."So I thought, so I thought."At that point, our waiter had arrived. I picked up the menu, but beforeI could even open it, Nick rattled off an. I'm closer to seventy than sixty, and pretty knackered to boot.A few weeks ago, I was lounging around as usual, parked next to the drain I use for an ashtray, enjoying the sunshine. I always park in that spot, with my back to the cash machine (ATM), I can see what's going on there in the mirrors on my buggy, I keep an eye out as sometimes the oldies less able than me get fucked up, and I give them a hand. This particular day must have been a Friday or Saturday evening, as a young couple walked.