?" And after he watched you walk out of the room and came back to earth, he gave me a nervous look, knowing that I knew that he had been checking you ...ut. I just made some comment about how I figured you were sexier than most of his friends' moms." You did not! Alan, isn't that going a little overboard?" Hey, you've totally gone along with this teasing thing. You're the one who went into his room in your underwear. I think it's turned you on as much as me." I doubt that, Alan. And I had a shirt. Again, for a briefmoment I felt disorientation and nausea, and when it lifted, I was againher. I was taller than her, and though I wasn't exactly athletic andworked out more sporadically than regularly, being embraced by my bodygave me the distinct impression that he was stronger than this body Inow inhabited again. Yet, I felt not threatened. If anything, I feltsecure."I know you must have a lot of questions, and I'll explain everything toyou. But first, yes, this is real, and no, there is no. ..everything. You will max all of your credit cards out with cash advances as far over the limits as they will go. You will then purchase enough food for one week, getting only one thing per store, and writing checks for the goods, with cash over for the maximum, until your checking account would be drastically overdrawn. You will then go to the bank, and withdraw all but $5 in cash, to be sure all checks bounce. You will at that point ask for a loan against your 401K at work, and rob the. "I visited her when she was in thehospital."Erin quickly glanced toward Pierce and then toward me, "He heard ustalking - that's all," I said softly to her."Grandma said that she wasn't always a grandma." He pushed the truck offand onto the seat where he laid his head down, his eyes still fixed onthe headstone of my mother.Erin gave a short laugh. "No Pierce, at one time she was a young mommylike me."He rolled his head toward his mother. "She was young, but she wasn't amommy like you."A chill.