I went in my remaining gray suit, white shirt, and the tie she’d picked out for me. I saw Cali across the room. She was surrounded by friends from s...hool and the theater. I wanted to rush up to her and hold her, but the one time our eyes met, she dropped her head and turned away from me. Child Protective Services had arranged temporary housing and care for her. When she was eighteen, she would be allowed to return home alone—possibly sooner if she applied to become an emancipated minor. There. Slightly shocked and off-balance, Jack struggled to take in the man'sappearance. But, he found nothing to recognize in the figure, obscuredas it was with sunglasses, hat and jumpsuit.Jack half managed a reply, "Who..., how do you know my name?" whensuddenly the figures right hand shot out. In the driver's grasp was astrange silver cylinder. In a measure of nanoseconds, a powerfulelectric pulse shot out, lashing into Jack. With lightning speed he wasrobbed of consciousness.Jack's eye lids. I went upstairs and looked out of our sons back bedroom window, I waited a few seconds, and then he appeared, it was the old ladies young Grandson, I swore something and I went to the bathroom as I thought I was about to be sick, I regurgitated but nothing came out, I soon left the bathroom and began to pace around my bedroom, Oh My God, I thought, oh my God, what am I going to do, my heart was pounding and continued to pound for most of the day, even when my husband and sons came home, I. “I smoke in my office so as not to annoy you. I’d have been home earlier if I hadn’t taken time to smoke a cigarette when I wasn’t in the car.” And that was the first time she’d mentioned that. Did that mean that she’d taken a cigarette beak while the traffic she complained of got worse? Anyway, her containment of the tobacco odor was far from perfect.“And the smell doesn’t go from your sacred office into the rest of the house? The door is open, even.”“The door is open because the room is an.