I turnedaround and ran right into him. "I am so sorry. I am so clumsy." I said. "No big deal. My name is Ben." Ben said. Benwas about six three and ha... the deepest blues eyes Ihave seen in my life. "My name is Stephanie." I said. I was sosurprised that I remember my name. What is happeningto me I thought. "You are very pretty." Ben said. "Thank you. So are you. " I said. Ben had aweird look on his face. Oh no he must think I am anidiot. I thought. "I mean you are very handsome." Isaid. "I know. Tammi backed up a step and then heard a noise behind her. She looked for a second and stopped moving. Tammi saw two more men behind her. The men didn't look dangerous, only dirty with mismatched clothes. Maybe they just want a pretty girl to keep them company. Of course Tammi and the men had different ideas of what that meant."Hold on there girlie, do ya know this be ar path? An' seeing that we work hard to keep it safe for travelers such as you, we need you to pay for ar hard work. Don't ya. She seemed to respond to that. Perhaps, for the first time in her life, a man was giving her orders and she was following them. Ryan, as it turned out, replaced her father. ‘I have to admit, I thought Ryan was good for her. He seemed to put a stop to her wayward lifestyle. He virtually controlled her. As I understand it, he didn’t ask Yolanda to marry him, he told her she would … and when … and where. She simply was expected to agree … and she did.’ I shook my head in disbelief. It seemed so. That should "defuse" their situation adequately.I talked the Muslim situation over with my women, and we all agreed that the first thing that needed doing was to force each regional headquarters of Homeland Security to stop the politics thing and to do their real job. The trouble was that this took almost seven months of heavy work on our part before we had all of the regions operating the way I thought they should have been from the beginning. Oh, well, better late than never, I guess.While.