It was a beautiful morning, albeit a little chilly, which showed on our nipples. On the way we passed a field full of sheep and lambs. Neither of us h...d seen little lambs before and we stopped for a while and watched the lambs running and jumping.It didn’t take that long to get there and Piper talked about how beautiful and fresh it was.When we got to about 100 metres from the farmhouse Duke and Foxy came running over to us.“How did they know we were coming?” Piper asked.“Smell, dogs have an. Here,have another glass of wine; it will calm you down."I took the wine and drank it; it was warm and soothing and in a fewminutes I felt a little more relaxed. Kimberly came out of the bathroomnaked and said, "What's going on here? I thought you two would be readyby now." I'm not going," I said emphatically."You have to get something to eat, Gabrielle. Come on, it'll be fun.Nobody here knows you and you don't look anything like Gary. You'll looklike Gabrielle. Come on. We've both been in this. On the East wall of the bath, overlooking the river valley and its town, Jessup, the builder had placed a window. The window was high on the wall, but allowed a man of better than average height to look out and enjoy a sweeping view of the grandeur of the river valley. Their mates on the other hand were only given a view of the high blue sky and what clouds happened by in this dry Eastern Washington locale. A similar view would have been expected from the bedroom windows except for the café. Thoughts swirled, crystallising as I lay awake, staring at the sliver of moon.I never wanted to be lashed like that ever again, that's for sure. Wrinkling my nose and squirming, trying to get comfortable, I decided I would have to think very carefully before putting myself in that position again.A strange feeling came over me. I felt older, or more mature or something. Experienced. Even my poor behaviour felt far away. Like it was last week. Like it had been someone else, some other person I.