.. I finally took her advice after you left Friday night... I cried into my pillow for hours... wrapped it in a towel to catch all the tears... It rea...ly helped. It finally really helped. Thank you Mark, for saving me. I couldn't have released my anger without you, and it was tearing me apart..."A short time later Mark and Kara were driving to the mall. Mark was delighted to see Kara looking so happy. "Kara, how about we expand the parka mission a bit? Throw in a few outfits too." Mark, you're. ” With that she leant across and handed Beth straight into my arms, picked up her little shoulder bag and went.Just like that! I was more than surprised, I was ‘gob smacked’ to use the modern idiom. What greater trust is there than that! I held her close, and all the lovely baby smells immediately came back to me from long ago memories. Johnsons baby powder, milk, and so many other special smells. I loved it. Perhaps sensing a different ‘parent’, Beth started to niggle again, so I stood up and. Questions were shouted at me. I was dragged out of the car and placed on a backboard. An oxygen mask was shoved onto my face. My clothes were cut off of my body, leaving me naked and shivering in the forty-five degree air. One of the paramedics agreed with my assessment that my right lung was collapsing rapidly and she poked a large caliber needle into my upper rib cage, releasing the pressure and making my breathing easier. A couple of IV's were stabbed into my arms. Finally I was loaded onto. When my lawyer told me he had to drop my case, I begged him to stay on, finally getting the reason from him: One of the two private dicks turned up, dead!He was too smart to accuse Jim, either directly or not, but just telling me what he did spoke volumes about what he thought.Suddenly, I began to get scared of my husband; would he kill ME? What would young Richard think if he found out?I started drinking, somewhat, and it was so easy to justify it with reasons, but it proved to provide even.