Stone realized then that his techniques did work, but some refinements and more "training" time were needed to be totally successful. That was why he ...ad "trainees" sign up for a year rather than 9 months these days.Sarah awoke at her normal time, groggy from lack of sleep. She had started getting ready for her work out before she realized today was the day of her big decision. The decision that would shape the rest of her life.She decided to work out, figuring the exercise would help clear her. On Friday, I found Joe working on board one of the barges and stopped when he invited me to have a mug of tea.“Rebecca’s still looking for something to do after the summer,” he said. “She’s going to ‘third hand’ with me through the summer, but wants some productive occupation, preferably paid, through the autumn and winter.”“Oh? Well I may have something to interest her. The Diocese offered some funding for part-time support in the parish when I took on the role of Diocesan. I was traveling west over narrow bumpy roads, passing through a few small towns, over railroad tracks and remembered passing an old general store in a town called Birch Run with a beat up old sign that said, Hinkley’s. I wondered if I should stop for a snack, but decided not to and kept going. I had been driving for over four hours when I realized I was getting hungry and now wished I had stopped. It was about four o’clock or so and I knew it got dark earlier in October. I was far from any. I had on a black mini-skirt over my black satin thong, and if I bent over a little too far every guy there would get an eyeful.Jack hadn’t chosen the classiest bar in the state. To call it a dive would be generous. It was dark and smokey, and filled with the kind of people I’d normally cross the street to avoid. I was the only woman in there, and the guys all leered at me as we walked to the bar. I guess Jack figured that in this kind of place, a guy slipping a pill into a girl’s drink would be.