"That's you."For the remainder of the night, I felt giddy. I hadn't felt this good in a long time. For some reason this little, otherwise insignifican..., invitation made me feel more alive than ever before. So much time had passed, since I last felt such joy in my heart, and I was happily becoming reacquainted with something I thought I'd never again experience.Today was Sunday and the get-together, or whatever it was, wouldn't be until the following Thursday - four agonizingly long days. All. My heart was in my throat.JanetWhere am I? I can’t move or see. My mind is so foggy. Why can’t I move. The light is so bright. It wants me to go to it. It’s so calming. OMG ... I see me. Is this what death is like. I’m floating above my body. I see people doing things to me. I hear a long buzzing sound ... Oh God, I’m dead! They are doing chest compressions trying to bring me back from the light. Then ... I hear beep. Beep. Beep beep.JakeI heard the doctor say, she’s back, pulse is strong. Need. " Amanda encouraged. "So now you can close your eyes and let yourself sink into a deep sleep, a sleep where you are all warm and safe where all you can hear is my voice speaking the truth." Even as Katie's eyelids fluttered Amanda was sliding around to sit beside her, an arm protectively around the young girls shoulder and with her other she gently brushed the girls blonde hair behind her ear. With her glossy red lips mere inches from Katie's ear, her perfume filling the young woman's nostrils,. . definitely not Bill! gave him a warm welcome and squeezed his hand slightly as she looked him over with a warm smile and an appraising glance as Mr. Grainger observed him over a smoking pipe and an opened newspaper, clearly dismissing him as irrelevant ... save only as a possible threat to his daughter’s virtue at some future time.“Emily, show Sam around the house and grounds,” Mary requested. “No lingering either,” she added a subtle warning.“Yes, Mummy. Come along, Sam,” she replied with a.