When Jake saw this, he started giving me some ideas for the words we didn't have yet. When we used some that worked, after another two weeks, we were ...ble to read about 75% of the text of some of the messages. Everyone was quite satisfied with what I had done so far, but apparently it wasn't enough to get me sent back to the States yet.I sat down with Sam one day, and told him about Sandy and our relationship, and how devastated she was when I had to tell her about my sudden trip. I pleaded. His face was priceless. We were probably only there half an hour, we got along nicely, I certainly enjoyed the day so far but we started the car and ended up at the parking by the Library. On the way over the skies had turned a haunting grey like rain was immanent. John got out and had to set up the roof of the car back to being closed. We couldn’t have gotten 2 or 3 steps from the car and the skies opened up. We both ran to the building and out of the downpour as if we were Olympic runners. I. "Mary stepped to kimmy and placed her lips on the other woman and gave her a fleeting kiss.A swift stinging slap on her left breast and her mouth flew to kimmy's and she gave her a more substantial kiss. kimmy flicked her tongue into Mary's mouth causing her to shudder in disgust. She had never even entertained thoughts of another woman let alone kissing one. FLASH"teach we expect more enthusiasm from you or we WILL call Amy down here. Now try again."Mary tried to block out the fact the kimmy. It started on a Monday in September fifteen years ago. It happened to be the day after my forty-second birthday—unmarked and uncelebrated.Don’t feel sorry. I just don’t do birthdays. I’d spent the weekend like any other weekend, hiking, socializing, and trying to get laid. A birthday could only be significant in that it helped me achieve one of the other three. This time it hadn’t been helpful.Cynical.Yes. I suppose so. I was grouchy as a spring bear when I got to my office at Anderson Elliott.