. Her eyes jerked open only to realize they were behind a thick velvet blindfold. She tried to scream and found her mouth full of fabric, transformin... her scream into a pathetic mumble. As the clouds continued to lift from her mind, she realized she was on her knees, and her arms were pulled behind her tightly, straps holding her wrists and even her elbows."You are pathetic, Simone," came the exotic voice out of the silence. "I knew you couldn't resist this meeting - you're so desperate to. "You don't ever have to feel guilty about spending time with the horses," I said. "In fact, I'm making a new rule. Brian's Unwritten Rule Number 67-A." Are there that many?" I don't know. I've never written them down to count." So what's the rule? I'm pretty sure I should write this one down." No one should ever feel guilty about spending time with horses," I said. "We're going to take these kids to the farm with us." The ranch," Rhonda corrected me."Huh?" Rose said it will be called El Rancho. She worked at home,so officially she ought to see who it came from. She waited for a fewseconds then ruffled the hair on the boys head. "Hold that tongue, I'llbe back in a minute." Sarah stepped from the bed and stretched, the boy watching her cat-likemovements with visible lust. As she was yawning she caught him lookingand smiled at him, then pulled on a green silk kimono and languidly movedthrough to the next room where the computer was.She sat before the computer and looked at the. Most of our scientific studies have been about disease-related memory loss. Sundowner’s syndrome, Alzheimer’s ... that sort of thing. There aren’t really that many cases of trauma-induced memory loss. Most of what people know about it is speculative or outright fiction. Looking at it from this side of the equation, we think how terrible it would be to lose our memories and how much we’d miss them. But maybe from your side it doesn’t seem so bad because you don’t know what you’re missing. I’ll.