It was just there off in the distance.How far away could that be? I wondered.I get up and look. Is that the way out! That must be I thought excitedly....ell, I though. If it isn't going to come to me, I'll guess I'll have tostart walking.I take one step and feel a tug at the back of my shirt.I look back and I see Jasmine holding be back. She is looking at me, thoseeyes as always so full of love."Wait" she repeated again, her left ear twitching.I paused for a moment, looked back at the light then. ”“You’re in for a real treat,” her father said with a grin.“Right,” she snorted. Even her father was teasing her about riding in a clunker in the parade.“I’ll see you there.”“I guess you will.”Lily had stopped going to the parade when she had turned a teenager. Until then she had gone every year with her father who talked about it as a work obligation rather than a fun family activity, although in his mind it was both. As a kid, she had trailed along behind her father who was busy talking to. The mental picture she had of me was that of a hoary, older man in a raincoat, who exposed himself to unsuspecting women in public. She read the answers I had provided to her. The mention of the alias she had chosen made her feel a bit uncomfortable. Amber wasn't sure why. "I'm being paranoid," she thought to herself. "It's not as if he can read my mind." She typed her reply. "Thank you, Gil. I wasn't expecting you to reply so quickly. You have provided me with a few missing pieces of the. Since I had the insurance tape I knew we were going to be at a stalemate. Yes, I got Hammer killed, but the FBI plan tried to execute me. Hammer needed it I didn’t. Well I admit that was just my opinion. My card kinda trumped his card. Even if I went to trial for killing Hammer, I wasn’t sure a jury would convict me.Week four of my vacation from the Durham County Co-op, started with a whimper, but not from me. After Mikah and I returned from out first walk of that Monday morning, Janet showed.