" I'd be delighted."Liz dressed in some of the clothes that Marci had bought, and we took a taxi to a nearby restaurant that served brunch. I noted th...t the weather had already started to clear from the morning shower. By way of starting our conversation over breakfast, Liz told me about her work. She had a three-hour weekday afternoon television talk show on Portland's KPLD-TV with a wide range of guests: dogs up for adoption, health care, women's issues, clothes, weather, insights into. Most of the slot players, I didn't worry about because they brought cash or credit cards to play on and their debts were covered up front. Whether or not they could afford to lose what they gambled was not my concern.Where I had to be more concerned was with people who played at the tables. Those were the people who gambled for higher stakes and sometimes used less conventional methods of payment, like staking out blocks of stock or signing IOUs. The only people we accommodated thusly were. “Will you help me?” I softly asked Cari, my voice close to breaking. “Of course, I’ll gather some wood!”Cari set off to gather some timber as I did the same. We built a small pile next to my parents and Cari helped me as we lifted my father and then my mother onto the pile. It wasn’t a pleasant ordeal by any imagination. Cari pulled a small piece of steel from her pocket and struck it against the flint and lit some small tinder before placing under the wood. We stood back as we watched the. Als ich das erstemal mich verstanden fühlte sagte er zu mir ich kann so sein wie ich möchte und muss mich bei ihm nicht verstecken. Ich dachte was ist das so kenne ich das nicht, ich hatte zwar schon mal eine Freundin, aber das war mir ehrlich gesagt fremd. Irgendwann schliefen wir ein. Alles in allem war es ein schöner Abend und er fuhr mich am nächsten Morgen zum Bahnhof. Als ich nach Hause kam, wollte ich erst meiner Mutter erzählen was mir passiert ist am vergangen Abend, aber ich dachte.