The next day after she had arrived, I got us some breakfast ready for the two of us. I had planned a long day for us, I had been planning this day for...the past few weeks, I remembered from when we had been chatting that she always, liked going to the zoo. So we spent the day at the local zoo, looking at the animals as we looked around. We were talking all the time and having much fun together. For the evening we went to the local pub and had a lovely meal. Once we finished and paid, once we had. Heathrow is far." Poor lonely boy, arriving in a strange land, and his cousin is too lazy to come meet him," she teased."Shut up," I laughed."I'll come with you," she offered. "Got nothing else on, and my liver could do with a break." Mm. Maybe. Ask me tomorrow."Her eyes glittered as she grinned and topped us both up again..:.I staggered into the flat sometime after midnight, only just sober enough to kick off my heels and wash my face. My feet ached from the long walk from the station, and I. I had another idea while I was thinking about the painting at Gene's."Billy Ray, do you think you could paint a picture on one of the walls of the new conference room when its ready? I'm thinking of having you do a picture of your grandfather, with his sons and Patty around him. Could you do that, do you think?" How they all are now, or like they were in the picture from back when Aunt Glenda got married?" You have another aunt?" Not now, but I did. She was older than Uncle Gene, Aunt Patty,. He pried her arms from his neck firmly but gently and said "I am sorry, Liebchen, but I have things on my mind." She could tell he was stricken."What is it?" My men. Two of them in the hospital died. I thought they were recovering. I have to write letters to their families." A pause. "One had been with me since Stalingrad so we were very close." Oh, my poor darling. I'm so sorry. You're too good to have to suffer that." She was thinking what a wonderful person he was, how full of depths, how.