Least to say I don't make it.... About 2 mins into my walk I hear the voice of one of my least favorite people "hey little guy are you not gonna say h...llo to your favorite and most attractive friend??" Bleck it's abbie. She and her younger sister have a camper a few doors down. She is always hassling me it gets old pretty quick. Abbie is 22 about 6'4, dirty blonde hair, tan and lean with a six pack. She has to keep in shape for volleyball I hear she has a full scholarship and is dominating at. "Oh, I don't know. Ifyou can get away without it, then fair enough. But I think for a lot ofwomen it's a confidence thing. You won't look good if you're notconfident, make-up or not. And if you don't look good..." She trailedoff. "Well, you won't be worrying about that, will you? Not for awhile."Pete felt a prickle of excitement: in terms of both intimacy and subjectmatter the conversation was entering a zone he'd never visited before.Not while talking to a woman, anyway. "What do you mean?". “Me and Michelle. That’s it. And except for a few times with Elyse, that’s been it since he brought Michelle home in August. And other than his birthday fling, which I encouraged, he’s been the model of self-control! That’s WAY better than what you negotiated!”“Kara,” I said gently. “Please don’t start a fight.”“It’s not her,” Jessica sighed. “It’s me. She’s right.”“We’re all trying to find the correct balance; «lagom», as my Swedish friends would say. All of us need to be able to say what we. Maybe there’s something to be said for natural selection. In Hugo’s time you had to be on top of your game to survive; maybe we’ve weakened the breed too much.On the other hand, something’s started nagging at the back of my mind along those lines. Maybe we’ve weakened the breed in some respects, but maybe we’ve strengthened it in others.As soon as we get this ID business dealt with, I need to get Hugo to a doctor.I read somewhere that one of the biggest “gifts” we presented to the native.