"You hungry?" the girl asked. I suppose she was maybe twenty, and I was not real sure whether she was the boy's mother or sister. Turned out she was h...s aunt. I shrugged off my light knapsack and shared what I had with them. We ate pretty well and spent some time peeking through the curtains at the scrambling Germans and listening to the bangs of ammunition going off in the burning barracks.By sunset things calmed down, and Sammy went back out to do whatever boys his age did in the twilight in. ? His balding greycomb-over looks even more like a tacky spider web than usual.? ?Lucinda, perhaps we should discuss this in?inprivate,? he mumbles.? Even though there?s no one around he glancesfurtively left and right before guiding me into his office.? The door clunks shut.? He lopes across the large room to the farside of the desk and plops his rotund butt into his big leather chair.? His suit buttons strain even further as he pointsme towards the low backed plebeian?s chair facing him.?. So i just continued walking and she turned around and saw me and waved. my heart thumpped into my throat and i wanted to die of heart failure, shes so beautiful. she is about 5 inches shorter than me im about 510 so ya im short too i guess and i weigh about 300 pounds, like i even have a chance. now she is not that ski ny either but shes also not fat, if i had to guess i would say she weighs about 130 pounds if that, with light brown hair, a voice of golden harps, and a smile of a godess. " Than 'it's' worth? We could be made for each other, Dave. This could be happily ever after." That's what you said about whatsherface - the 40-year-old." Lisa." Yeah, that's the one. Why can't you just find a nice girl your own age?"What he didn't add was 'like me'. Dave had found a girl who met all his criteria and married her. I had no intention of following his lead right now. But I did want to find a 'nice' girl and do 'nice' things with her. In Amber I knew that I had found a nice girl -.