‘I’m sorry,’ she said immediately, automatically. ‘I shouldn’t have said that. He was your friend…’ ‘It’s alright,’ he said, givin... her a ghost of a smile and waving his hand with a nonchalance that didn’t show in his eyes. He had that gentle look of quiet appreciation of life that came to some people who lost loved ones, but knew that lost friend would be offended if they did not continue to smile. ‘I know it’s probably really hard on you, seeing everyone so…happy.’ He trailed off, not looking. ‘Did you see that red and silver Duesenberg over there?’ with a gesture over to a circle of truly classic cars. ‘That is a jewel!’ ‘What’s something like that worth?’ Kate asked. ‘I heard that one similar to it sold a couple months back for around a million point two,’ I replied. ‘Whoa! That’s too much!’ Kate laughed. ‘I want to meet the owner.’ ‘Don’t get too close,’ Jack chimed in. ‘Unless you’re naked!’ We all laughed and, after I put my polishing stuff away, we began to wander around the. I was excited to get the cargo I had ordered, especially the pumps we needed for the windmills. I had thought the twenty pumps I bought on our last trip to St. Louis were at least ten more than we’d need, expecting to sell any extras to people in Oregon.Our huge harvest is complete except for the cold weather crops like beets, cabbage, and broccoli. We planted them late last summer and had fresh vegetables most of last winter, so we did the same thing this year. We have four times as much. "I thought I alone knew the torture of the two of them rutting at me like dogs on a bitch in heat. But you, you've endured it for longer." She pulled away and gazed into Anna's eyes. "And they are your kin? How did you do it?"Anna thought about that for a while. How did she do it? Certainly, the longer it went on, the worse it became, and yet the more accustomed to it she became. "I don't know," she said finally. Then it hit her. "You mean the two of them..." Whenever he comes over,.