She was looking well. Yesterday I had seen her sunbathing naked in her back garden. She saw me looking at her for just a second too long. She smiled h...r cheeky knowing smile.“Off you go now before Ann wakes up.” Iris missed nothing that happened on our street, she obviously knew that Ann had stayed over last night.I cycled into town along nearly deserted streets. I collected what I needed from the supermarket and stopped to get the web address from the doctors so that I could help Iris get her. I have two teenaged kids who need to learn these skills for when they are adults. Someone in this room is good at balancing a checking account and many of us need to be taught how to do it. There are lots of good cooks, are you teaching all the kids how to cook the things you love? I’ve taught my kids to change a tire on our car, but I didn’t teach any other kids, or wives.’ ‘And, in a community, we would just do it?’ ‘We’d talk to each other. Invite other people to participate with us. Then we. I just think that since we’re friends, we should help too.’ Nancy and Ellen nodded and so did Sandra. Wow, I thought. My friends want to help with Dar too. Maybe I should have called them. When I said this, Sandra said ‘Maybe you should have. I would have come over if I’d know why you weren’t coming by. You and your sisters have been my friends for a long time, and I remember how often George would take you and me out.’ Sandra nodded at that. ‘I’m sorry guys, but I didn’t want you stuck with. ." No, I can't blame you," Pete smiled. "I have no one but myself to blame. It looks like it worked out pretty good for you, anyway." It did," Jon sighed. "Not without some pain along the way, but it did. So, did they get it all out?" It looks like it," Pete smiled. "I'll have to have annual MRIs for a few more years, but I just had one a couple weeks ago and there's no sign of it coming back so far." Well, that's good news," Jon sighed, shaking his head at his thoughts of what might have been.