"Wild Bill said, "Is your condition affecting your thoughts? They soundalmost motherly?"I said, "Maybe, maybe, but is it not true?"Wild Bill said, "Ye... they can and Larry will learn some real skills andbe a better person for it."I said, "Let's set this up and tell Larry Monday. Tonight will be hislast night as Laurie unless he does it of his own accord."Wild Bill said, "What if he wants to be Laurie?"I said, "We will take him to Girls R Us and teach him proper." Why not your Aunt?" said Wild. She then hung up and in only a few short minutes she came back and said “there is a hotel at the next exit, I will call you back. Well the snow and the winds were really making it hard to see and the radio was now warning people to find a place to wait the storm off. Just as we got off the highway Dee called again” I have you booked for a room for three days at Travelers``,she said .”What the weather reports are showing is that it is coming straight across the Midwest. Call me when you get to. But that’s never happened.’ ‘Thanks. I’ll have to think about it.’ ‘Take your time. It was a pleasure to talk to you. If you have any more questions, I am at extension 227. Bye.’ I wanted to call my friends right away to give them all the details, but thought it would be more fun to wait till I saw them on Friday night. On Thursday, Sandy called. ‘Hey.’ ‘Hey yourself.’ ‘You call the Bimbo Factory yet?’ ‘Maybe…’ ‘You gonna tell me about it?’ ‘Well, I guess you’ll have to come tomorrow to find. Taking an old percolator coffee pot she put some coffee in the metal insert, added water, put on the top with its little glass ball, and placed it on the stove. Coffee was one of the few things from the white man Robert found of any value. She took another bite of jerky, but this time she also took a small bite from one of the bars of dried fruit and nuts. Chewing slowly she silently broke the mescal into a powder. She added some flour and honey to that, broke up one of the fruit-nut bars,.