Edna asked why leave six thousand and Robert reminded her that she still had rights of use of her old home. If for any reason she ever wanted to retur... to the states she could. Her meager income was being deposited there each month and the account would be growing.Robert played poker at Bob's fish camp that night. He lost twelve dollars and played his ass off.He got home after one am and found his darlings fast asleep. He had to play catch up the next morning when he woke to the eager mouths. Her bosses down in Las Vegas knew without asking how attuned she was to everything around her and that was the primary reason she was promoted again and again.She saw that the ceremony would be officiated by a Brigadier General from the California National Guard. He looked awfully young to be a one star General but in these times of constant combat; promotions move a lot faster than in peacetime. She definitely did not like the flash cameras. They heightened her fear factor and made her want to. Tessa let Conner hold her, it felt nice to let him hold her, but it was also frightening. She couldn’t stop crying, she wanted to, but she couldn’t. The tears kept coming until they were pouring out because of pure frustration over being unable to stop crying. As she cried harder Conner tried to sooth her even more. He was gentle and calm and simply waiting. She felt his breath against her ear as his hand ran caringly through her hair. “I’m sorry Tessa.” He murmured, “I want to take it slow,. "Roughly 60% of children in Western Australia attend a government school, with the other 40% attending some kind of private school.State schools are overseen by the WA Department of Education and Training, centrally and through its four district offices across the Perth metropolitan area. Roughly half of the private schools are Catholic, most of the others are also affiliated to churches; Anglican, Uniting Church, Lutheran, Baptist and so on. There are also Montessori, Steiner and schools with.