Gathering myself, I waited for a while, and then headed over to their house just as I very often did to check on things.At least Janice was pleased to...see me, though not quite for the reasons I'd been hoping for as of late. "Oh Good! I was just about to call you," she stated. "I need a favor." Sure, whatever you need," I told her nervously, yet mildly relieved at the moment."Would you mind sitting with mom for a bit? I need to run out and do a couple of errands I've been neglecting to do.. Should we write them a letter? Make a deposit in their account? Will they have us arrested for making an ATM withdrawal. This is getting complicated.”“Shit. I didn’t think of that. Let me make a deposit to cover plus a little and then I can leave a message on their phones or write a letter.”Tom said, “I will take care of it.”Mary said, “I want to go shopping to start our inventory but what do you think?”“I think that just like now, we will miss something or forget something. We need to. Ihad Bill slimmed way down, so his curves would show when theydeveloped, and he really was starting to round out, front and rear. No one but the wives and Beth ever saw them, and they didn't knowabout each other at all, od course. We showed each other pictures,and half of our weekly conferences were taken up with making jokes. Helene wondered if Tommy was Charlie's type, how they'd get on ifthey dated. I thought Bill was better suited, and Bill liked dark,mysterious-looking women. Lorie. It would take a lot of the bamboo available to them but they could try to construct a raft. The idea he had was to make the raft out of bamboo but then utilize the plastic rafts from the plane on top of the bamboo as further support. He could build a seaworthy raft from just the bamboo but the added benefit of the rafts lashed together on top would give them added safety. If the bamboo raft were to ever break up in heavy seas, they could always continue on in one of the plastic rafts. Even lash.