“Dee,” Haley said, now with a thoughtful gleam in her eye, “if I were to apply to Middlebury College and get accepted...”Here she paused for a...second. Then she continued, “Can you tell me just how I might become ... uh ... affiliated, I guess is the term I am looking for ... with the Sigma Lambda Tau Society?”She looked at her new friend to see that Dee was now smirking and nodding gently.Dee surprised Haley somewhat by answering without any hesitation. “Well, Honey, you simply come by the. 'Will it start before I run out of hill? I didn't know or particularly cared.'Chukka chukka chukka... POP... POP... chukka chukka... BANG... 'The chicken wire baffle sounded a tinny rattle from the otherwise straight-through exhaust.I don't know why we put those things in the pipes in those days. I think it may have been the law banning loud exhausts. It never made any difference to the volume, as I recall.I reached the bottom of the hill and still the damned thing hadn't sprung to life. Not. . you're just like your father with your pranks." Martha said smiling.Lorna didn't answer but just giggled again, she had been the butt of many of her father's jokes and knew what her mother meant, the last one had been when she was going to the paddling pool that her father had set up in the back garden, just a largish circular pool blown up by hand and filled with water. What she wasn't aware of was the slide of mud that he'd set up and so as she ran towards the pool she suddenly found her. Her poor sight didn’t help. She slumped in the wing chair, her once tidy figure unfettered and spreading a little as the tired staff at the home couldn’t be bothered with bras, underclothing nowadays reckoning it was too hard to dress patients for nothing. Her once neat chestnut hair untidy now. He fetched the hairbrush, she loved him brushing her hair, it was the thing his dad had always done. perhaps Dad`s form of sexual foreplay. Regular slow sweeps of the brush had her smiling, humming a.