And that problem was all Jamie's! The truth was ghastly... but Susan felt a tremendous relief flooding her... a new confidence in herself as a person....It was a confidence that she had almost completely lost... and now she felt it returning rapidly... She could help Jamie... Love him again... be a good mother... all those things... now that she KNEW!Seeing Jamie's hand upon the table before him, she reached out and placed hers over it. She felt his hand trembling beneath hers... but he made no. She was feeling very affectionate at the moment, and wondered if Pierce was feeling the same way. She truly liked Pierce, and to an extent, she would say she was in love with him. Yet, she and Pierce seemed to be in a stagnate relationship.Haley sighed as she thought about Brook and Will’s relationship. Those two were closer than any couple she had ever seen, and she wished she and Pierce could be like them.“Sex”, she thought to herself, “They’ve had sex...maybe-” But Haley just couldn’t bring. I want it indistinguishable from the real one.”“Jess, the people who’ll run this program have never even met him, they won’t be able to tell.”“But you’ll be able to replace him with people you do know - then it’ll make a difference.”“Whatever. Look, Jess, the reason I called you in here ... I don’t know how to put this. I’m ordering you to take a vacation.”“Ordering me?”“Yes. You’re working too hard. Jess, I’ve been in this business since the start. That’s nearly thirty years. And in all that. Stars that we should not have been able to see were abundantly brilliant. A gauze of tree limbs fixed the pointillist heavens into a cracked-glass mosaic and a slender breeze swayed the leaves around us just enough to delight the ears. Heather and I bypassed the house altogether and strolled arm and arm to the backyard.“Push me on the swing?” she murmured.I led her to the old wooden plank that hung from an exceedingly high branch. She’d noticed the apparatus the previous day when I gave her the.