” Mom told us.Then Mandy continued, “Well, I was thinking that we should get on birth control.”“What! You girls having sex?” Dad questioned ...n a raised voice.“No dad, we aren’t and we don’t plan to for a long time. But what happens if some boy decides they like the way we are growing up and decided to rape us. I mean, I hope it doesn’t happen, but you never know. I mean after all, boys are growing up too and the hormones are flowing.” Mandy told them.Mom said, “Well, yes that could happen, but. The nurse brought him the suitcase that was supposedly his, so he might find some clothes to wear. He found silk camisoles and satin panties, bras, garter belts and pairs of stockings. On top of them was a pink nylon apron with frilly straps.Half an hour later the nurse asked him why he wasn't dressed and ready. He blushed deeply and shrugged, kicking the open suitcase with a dangling foot. She looked down. Then she looked up at him."Wrong suitcase, I guess," she said, turning. "Let me go look. ” Their team leader looks at me and says, “there is a staff break room down the hall on the right, you guys go and take a break there, we have 3, 4-man teams working the doc and know you guys are on it 24/7. We will handle all the conference crap; you just have to get the Colonel to and from safe ok?” We both say, “Copy!” We go and sit down in the staff break room after getting some coffee and the Sargent looks over at me, I can tell he is trying to gauge if Sis told me anything, so I start. " Wow," he whispered."I'm a philosophy major Richard. I love different points of view and alternative structures of belief. It's how I recognized what my mother was trying to do to me and my dad." Are they still together? Your parents I mean." Yeah. For now," she said with some disgust. "Dad just doesn't seem to have the balls to toss her out on her ear."He looked at her seriously, "Love is a powerful thing Steph. If he has stuck it out this long he must love her."She smiled to herself.