Q. So, you are not planning on getting Mara pregnant yourself? Not even once?A. No. Even before we got married, we'd already discussed that. Mara has ...lways been interested in African culture and it's history, and she's always be very interested in having an African-fathered baby; and I found that extremely compelling, as well as more than a little exciting.Q. So why would Mara want to marry you, if she wasn't necessarily interested in wanting to have a baby with you? Most married couples do. From the neckdown, I was as smooth as a baby's bottom.I tried to figure out what had happened when it suddenly dawned on methat I couldn't remember anything about the past weekend. Franticallysearching my memory, I could only recall joining a co-worker for drinksafter work on Friday, but nothing else at all until I woke up thismorning. My tender body told me that something had happened--something toomemorable to quickly forget.Desperate for an answer, I finally told myself that I must have. He saw a beautiful mare with a foal nursing from her. "Beatrice?James, have you managed to get Beatrice to look after the foal?"He got no reply. James couldn't speak. She had lost the ability to talkto humans. Even when she spoke to the foal, her words were mere neighsand snorts to human ears. Yet she could still understand humans. But fornow, this couldn't help in the slightest.James, where are you?" called her father, now searching the rest of thestables.Both her parents, torches in hand,. .. he knew he would do anything for that."I would have said yes," Susan said a short time later. She had been watching Brandon for some time as he stared out the window."Yes, to what?" If you had asked me out," Susan explained. "I knew you wouldn't though. I was pretty much a bitch that whole mission." Well you had a lot on your plate," Brandon said."I'll tell you what," Susan suggested. "How about when this is over, we spend a few days in Vegas. See some shows; waste some money in the.