Her hair ruffled and strewn across her face was black and short. The mother hearing her poor child’s cries crawled to the fourth soldier, clinging t... his leathers and begging him to give her more time. "Please! She is blind; she cannot be of use to you! Please give me more time! My husband has passed away, it is hard for us too--" the woman barely finished as the soldier shoved her away, his mind was busy thinking of the young supple girl they had just acquired, and he could care less for the. She giggled at my reaction and apologized. While she laughed I found myself unable to tear my eyes away from her. She had the smoothest, richest olive brown skin, the result of a mixed Mediterranean heritage. Her black and violet hair hung loose down to her to the small of her back. The deep tranquility of her radiant sapphire eyes glinted as though they had captivated the stars themselves. I found myself transfixed upon the endless darkness in her pupils at the center of this makeshift. She collected our trash and jumped out of the car.As soon as she'd shut the door, my father said, "Everything the truth?" Have I ever lied to you?"He turned around just as Jessica was getting back in."Once. I think you were seven. Do you remember the frog?" Dad, I was seven." I haven't heard that one," Jessica said with interest.So on the trip back, my father proceeded to tell Jessica about the time I put a frog down Marcia McClellan's blouse. Jessica was having a good time laughing.That was. Beth and I got out of the Jeep Commander Paulee was driving, and looked at our new home-away-from-home. I walked over to Josh and asked, "You're sure your friend doesn't mind you loaning us this thing for the next two months? I mean this RV has to be worth at least three-hundred thousand dollars."Josh corrected "Three-hundred-sixty-nine thousand and change. Carl doesn't mind because he's only doing a sixteen-month stretch upstate in the Western Missouri Correctional Center instead of the fifty.