So, the two of you, warmed by the liquor, giggled as you made your way, arm in arm, along the main walkways and then, turning off the beaten paths, ma...e you way through the narrow, and narrower winding alleyways of trailers and smaller attractions. You chatted and laughed together. You liked Kristin so much. It was a pleasure to have time alone, you had both been so busy. ‘Shujin’s away until Monday. Why don’t you come home and stay with me for the weekend.’ ‘Oh, God, I’d love to,’ Kristin said. " What do we know?" I asked."If we go to the bank after Christmas and make them a cash offer for the building they will foreclose on it damn quick. It will take a couple of months, but we can get it, no problem. If A1 doesn't contest it, which they most likely would, according Jen's guy, if they contest it then it would drag out for a year or more." Wait, Jen's paralegal is a guy now?" I asked laughing."Apparently a retired clerk of court," Sylvia said."I will be damned. I just knew she had. .. !”Tom went on thoughtfully. “Yeah, some of the guys on my track team hugged me after I had a good race time--we slapped each other on the arses too, all in fun; that’s fine; doesn’t bother me. Say, I told Darden--she’s our counselor--that I maybe I can’t handle being even a little intimate with a girl without having a psychological or maybe emotional attraction to her. I love Lynette so, so much that in my deepest thoughts, I must feel that any kind of intimacy with someone else is betraying. She wasgoing to her execution still wearing her favorite nitie.A door in front of them opened and she was motioned inside. Shocked atfirst, this wasn't an executioner's room.Three young teens sat motionless in the center of the room. Each one withlonger hair than permitted for males, yet too short for a female. Justthen the far door opened and a woman in the uniform of the FleetCommander entered."Have a seat Captain Wells," it was said with more concern, morecompassion than she'd heard since.