That note read as follows:- My gift to you doesnt come gift wrapped, with a pretty bow on it or in a beautiful box or even a lovely card. My gift to y...u is to free myself from the burden that is my life. This life I live is not a life, it is a prison, an asylum, a life sentence if you will but it is anything but a life anyone would want to live. I wander nameless and aimless. People see me but never know my name or care to ask if I am okay. I go through the same routine like clockwork. Nothing. Over the next eight weeks, all the guys settled into army life. Bryce and Vincent also became friends and were often paired up for the sentry duties that had to be performed. A further strengthening of their budding friendship occurred in the mess hall one evening when a large guy named Rob wanted to beat Bryce up after one of his tactless comments.Rob was a really dislikeable guy whose fingers seemed to have a permanent love affair with his nostrils. After Bryce asked him if had found anything. Doing it for hour after hour until she was thoroughly tired but very happy, knowing that her very tiredness, and presumably his, would act against the desire to spend a lot more time with him after they left the dancing floor. But she knew, she imagined, that this exertion, once she had recovered and rested, would double back on her in the form of a great emptiness at breakfast the next morning, and a hunger of another sort that would be less easy to assuage -- at least without David. . Then … it changed.“Mom?”“In the kitchen, honey.”This was nothing new. Since the big discovery that day and the uneasy shift in their relationship, Patty had been visiting Olivia more regularly. It was apparent to Olivia that the visits were a combination of her daughter’s equal desire to mate with the dog and her interest in seeing her mom complying with the expectations presented to her. To date those expectations had been limited to nudity around the house and mating with the dog daily,.