It will not be much longer before I read her thoughts well enough to leave her alone." Alone?" We do this all the time. We are only a thought away. Th...re is always a protector near in case of trouble." Human children need to be tended and watched all the time. If there is a way to get into trouble, they will find it." Ours are much the same."I built six more engines before lunch and I had only seven hundred and thirty eight left to do. A hundred or so was enough and the rest could be done when. ‘What is this?’ I asked timidly, gazing around in confusion. He laughed. ‘The prophecies are finally coming true,’ he answered boisterously. ‘The children of the feather, joined at last. This is truly a day to celebrate.’ He turned to address the company gathered. ‘Let it be remembered, the day of enlightenment.’ A deafening cheer shook the trees as a thousand voices chorused his words. I turned to my companion and found him smiling brightly at me as he held out his left hand, the imprint of a. Get things started.” Elizabeth turned and ran up the stairs and out the door. Mattie stood staring, bouncing Lily in her arms.“Don’t get starry-eyed,” Evelyn said. “She’s not leaving her husband.”“I didn’t ... wouldn’t ... never...”“Maybe you didn’t and maybe you never, but you would. Here. Give me Lily and go run your errands. I need to get dinner started. It’s a slow cooker meal.”“Are you their cook now?” Mattie asked.“We have free room and board here,” Evelyn said. “We all need to do our. ” It was so named because you turned onto Route 136 at The Dixie Truck Stop.You could use 136 to get to Havana, Illinois, and connect with Route 24 which took you up river to Peoria and from there on north. It was a little bit longer, but you avoided most of the small towns and could easily go to either Rockford or Chicago or even the Quad Cities. Since Peoria and Rockford were both bustling manufacturing towns in those days, The Dixie Highway was the preferred truck route north for many.