"You girls want to sit with us?"Mel turned around and flipped her skirt up. She wasn't wearing panties, her butt cheeks and upper thighs were crisscro...sed with welts. Some of the welts were scabbed over. "Ray was pretty mad." she repeated.Lucy lifted Patricia's skirt. "You're even worse. I didn't think he was allowed to do that."Patty pushed her skirt back down, flushing. "He said." Her voice was full of rage "that it was because we didn't go to bed fast enough. We complained to the AI, but it. It is difficult to understand why the German Wehrmacht was so well entrenched in the Sicilian countryside but it was unfortunately the case and they had to be uprooted and destroyed to secure the Allies southern flank as they continued to dismantle the Nazi hold over the occupied territory of Europe.As I write this chapter, I think back to a film I saw as a young child called “A Walk in the Sun” which came out just after World War II describing a day in the life of a platoon of American. Who zor zor say chila rahi theen lakin main nay wahin kaam jaari rakha takreeban aadhe ghante baad main ne un ki aankhoon main dekha jo ke ab red ho chuki theen (jab aurat farig honay wali hoti hai to yahi condition ho jaati hai aankhain red sans tez tez chal rahi hoti hai aur bahut hi garam hoti hai us ki sans haan who us waqat laiti bhi bilkul seedhi hoon aur jab who chootne wali ho gi to apni tangain phaila dain gi aur jab ye condition ho tab samajh lain ke who farig hone wali hai lakin aik. But there was some sense to it too, and I had to admit, there was something comfortable about talking to someone not quite so close to your own life.So it was the next night that I found myself in the same coffee shop, facing Julia. She listened patiently while I told my story, I'll give her that. And she never smiled at me. "I think I understand your confusion," she said.I didn't answer, but soon wondered what I was looking for. Would she say something that would solve all my problems? "So now.