"Give me a D!" Tom shouted."Give me an R!" another girl shouted."Give me and A!" yelled Tom's new best friend, Karen.When they finished, they spelled ...ut the word DRAGONS, they thengrouped together and formed a human pyramid with Tom on the bottomand Karen on top. It took Tom awhile to learn how to help the others intothe pyramid without putting down his pom-poms.Seeing Steve, waving to him, Tom dropped his stuff and ran over for akiss. He then ran across the football field to the ladies locker. I was hanging out -- literally -- when Michael tapped on the slider Thursday morning at about ten. Fortunately, I have this kind of a towel kilt that is belted by a Velcro strip, so I threw that on -- and was still settling it around my hips as I came into the kitchen to open the slider -- which gave Michael bug-eyes, not that he saw anything. I knew that he would rather die at this point rather than tell his mother or his sister anything that might screw up using the pool AGAIN -- but I wasn't. “We aren’t art. You, me, all of us are machines. Living ones, yes, but still machines. Your heart pumps blood through your veins and supplies energy to your muscles. You ingest fuel through your mouth and when you’ve burned it for heat, your body excretes the waste. Take your muscles.” He smacked his right palm into his thick, left arm. “They are a complex form of machines. They flex and pull, responding to impulses from your brain. What a great machine each living creature is.“Vebrin may have. She was a cute girl, about 5’8” with a small round face, long blond hair, and a brain the size of an almond. I say almond instead of the more commonly used peanut, because she was not quite as stupid as say… Paris Hilton, whose brain I would compare to a peanut. But nonetheless no one ever made the mistake of thinking her an intellectual person.She lived just down the block from me, and I met her at the park one day while I was playing basketball at the park. She walked by, smoking a.