. I can't even say it!"The medics got Renee up on a stretcher and lifted her into the ambulance. One got in back and pulled the door closed. The other...jogged to the front of the vehicle and hopped in."Ms. Gilbert," I said."Yes, Tyballa?" What we were doing doesn't matter, not right now. We can talk about it tomorrow. All that matters is Renee. Will you take us to the hospital?" Tyballa!" Please. What if she dies?"The dean turned white."Oh, I'm sure she won't die. The doctors will take good care. This could be explained by telling you that my father had been a conscientious employee of a company known as the ‘crooked E’, and lost everything, including the will to live with the shame of it all. He left my mother with three kids, me, my sister Rita, and brother Glen, with no income and no family home. We went from an affluent gated community to a trailer park in a matter of weeks. I figured that while a football career, even if I made the bigtime, would be short-lived, I needed a career. She was too involved in the ‘escape.’ It was a warm, May day with the temperature in the upper seventies. Weather was forecast to be clear or with a few clouds and no rain anticipated. She had trouble concentrating on her work all day and when people began leaving at five she lingered at her desk, pretending to work. Everyone else was gone by six and she had said she would lock up, that she had something she was working on. In reality she was entirely too nervous to actually get any work done.. "Karen grinned, "I doubt if they'll all be as forgiving as he is." True," said Sylvia, "but I'm sure he'd come to my rescue if things did get out of hand." So you do expect to be traded, then?"Sylvia thought for a moment and gave a slow nod, "I suppose I do," she replied."I'm home!" yelled a male voice from the front door."Harry!" responded the two women as they jumped up and ran to greet the returning sailor."That looks about right, Chief," said Harry as he glanced up from the display.