My first three c***dren were adults and lived on their own and my youngest son was going to be 17, so he and my daughter would soon be joining them an... my husband and I would live our own lives and that included our current condition. I slept a little more, once my family had left, and I made my way back to my condo for my noon time appointment. I was well rested and actually did a little work out before I got ready to go. When my client arrived we got right down to business and I sucked and. Looking further back, he spotted Martinez and Albert, then he saw Jeno and Amos on either side of the long line of cattle. The four of them were riding back and forth to keep the cattle moving and in line. He spotted Willis and Moses even further back, as they too rode back and forth slowly, keeping the cattle moving in a straight line.He couldn’t make out who was riding at the back of the herd, though he could see five more riders back there with two riding drag and knew this was the four. "Yes. I thought everyone did," Julie said in a matter-of-fact manner. During this conversation other girls had been drifting over to listen."Noo," the young mother wailed, "I've never leaked. I've had a hard time just feeding my baby." Let me try then," Julie said, baring both breasts. Mary handed her baby to her, and Julie held her up to her breast, but she didn't feed."Let me show you," another girl said, and she showed them how to get the child started."I never did it with a baby before. Da. It was the filter to protect her from what the Pacific Northwest tried to push on everyone. Seattle wasn’t the city her parents grew up in, it was barely the city her grandparents lived in, and Lord knows it wasn’t the metropolis her great-grandparents retired in. The Great Emerald City was now the hub of the world after the borders being redrawn over the past half century. It was ugly and beautiful and dangerous and safe and exotic and familiar and hateful and loving all at once. She knew how.