“This is Saint Maria Hospital, Who is this?” He hesitates for a moment, and begins considering whether or not to claim to be the brother.“This i... Daniel, I’m a friend of the family.” There is another long pause.“I’m sorry but I need you to put Jake back on the line.” Daniel glances over at Jake who hasn't moved, out of the corner of his eye he glimpses the grim reaper ornament. It almost looks like it is smiling. “I can't...He won't, umm, take it. What happened?” Once more there is a pause,. .. blasted a concrete swimming pool right out of the ground.We had an occurrence of shrapnel.It is only a hundred feet... 33 meters ... from the tree to the front door of the palace. A round from a 16” rifle on the USS Missouri exploding on the tree would not have had a greater effect.BLACKNESSThe next 12 weeks ... three months ... are not in my memory ... they do not exist. Doctors, surgeons and specialists did things of which I was unaware. In my mind ... or at least ... within the range of. ”“You say there is no GalNet?”“You can make a connection while we are at Station stops. We will be at Sol Hub for about 40 minutes.”“I like to call and find out if there are any news, you know.”“We are reaching Sol in less than six minutes. Why don’t you make your coms? I fix us breakfast while you do that.”She too got up in a most delectable display of smooth feminine moves, a flutter of chiffon and satin and hair.”Come, Partner, you can help me.” She said and the big animal willingly followed. Or Mrs Howell instead of Ginger or Mary Ann. Uh oh, I'm starting to fantasize about the less good looking chicks in my shows. My friends. My dad. Nobody could find out about this. Something else started to happen, I started to notice girls in real life that I liked. Lisa, in one of my classes was cute but I remembered she shit her pants in class in 3rd grade and I couldnt get over it. But this other girl that just moved to town, Christie. Wow, she's perfect. She became my new Wilma. I started.