"I can build you an attractive installation of high quality that you can promote at attractive prices on a sound financial basis. Shall I show it to y...u tomorrow, or shall we close our negotiations now?"Helen knew she was on sound footing. The competition award stipulated a substantial payment to her if the project did not go forward. Since it was more than enough to cover her development costs, she doubted Schellen would throw money down that rat hole, now he had gone this far.Schellen sat. I could not accept that this sweet looking younger girl was me. Somestranger named Stacy was staring at me with timid eyes. I rememberedlooking at girls like her, a couple years ago, and wishing I had the nerveto ask one to go out with me.Many people greeted us at church and asked about me; Liz explained thatthis was Stacy, and that our families had always been extremely close. Shewas always careful to avoid any gender-specific pronouns, and never calledme "niece", but the implications were. The meal tasted so much better even though it was only sausages, chips and baked beans washed Dow with beer or whiskey contained in flasks. Mystery and a few others laced coffee with whiskey and it went down well while the women drank either beer or coke with vodka mixed in. By 10:30 we were all fairly drunk and singing along with the pop songs on the radio and feeling Randy. Somebody got out a deck of cards and suggested we play strip poker. Strangely I Didn,t think anyone else would agree,. JamesKatie and Tara are very smart girls. They follow me around while I do maintenance on the apartments. When I need a part I would show them the broken one and tell them where a new one was in my shop. They would run and bring me what I needed. They soon learned what tools I needed to fix things and they would fetch them for me too. At first I thought at their age they wouldn’t be much help but I was wrong they save me a lot of time and energy. I enjoyed their company and one Saturday I.