"No need to leave soquickly, Elizabeth," he said."So he's a she?" the girl said."Only in my head, sadly," I said.She took a look at me and said, "That...must suck." It does." I could help you with that," the Wizard said.I looked at him. The descriptions of him dont really do him justice.Most stories describe him as looking like a crazy old man in a bathrobe,but I saw something much more than that. In fact he reminded me of ..." Gandolf? Really?" He said."Yeh. Like him, you hide your true. Thank you, Kathy for everything you did for me today. Maybe I can make it up to you sometime." I really didn't..."Mom came slamming into the room without bothering to knock. "What the hell's going on in here?" she stormed. "Who is this slut and why is she in your room?" This is no slut, Mom. This is Kathy. She helped me today when you wouldn't. You speak nicely to her or I'll make sure you regret it." I had never spoken harshly to my mother and she looked like I'd slapped her."Just what do you. ’ ‘One sixty.’ ‘You cheap bastard.’ ‘One sixty?’ ‘And all the tape I can eat. O.K. One sixty.’ I didn’t give a damn. I knew the plays. Reeves came around and talked to me, wanted me to go over the game plan with Jacko. ‘Just tell him to get the ball to me.’ Reeves shook his head and went out. About four o’clock we went downstairs for the pre-game feed. Steak and eggs. It was dark when we came out onto the field into a bowl of light. Reeves had given us the usual crap in the dressing room, how. Basically, if someone in your family was kidnapped, the insurance would pay out to their kidnappers and they would get the person back to you safely. It was so common, in fact, that unlike the US ... where many kidnappings end badly for the kidnapped ... the person who was kidnapped was usually returned safely once their abductors were paid.The sad thing was, that was the best case scenario, since the alternative was much-much worse, especially for Sandy. If that was the case, I would almost.