I don't mean to bother you but Linda..." She turned and pointed out a woman Karen had talked to earlier in the day. " ... That's her over there, the o...e wearing the green dress. Well anyway, Linda said you had mentioned something about making a donation to the church, believe me, we could sure use it. Sam Peters ... He's one of the original members ... Well, Sam has been talking to Pastor Bishop about putting up a real church, you can see how we've already outgrown this tent, so anything you. Sarah knew their designshouldn't have failed, they had run the simulations hundreds uponhundreds of times. The next few days had been spent investigating thecause of the failure. It was late Thursday evening when they found theproblem. The schematics they had drawn up, specifically called for acertain alloy and then for heat treating the part to achieve the properhardness and durability. The supplier for the machinist they contractedwith, had evidently shipped improperly labeled stock. The. ." He sighed. "Anyway, what Mary wanted was a tryout, preferably more than once, by each of us. She figured that if we both were with her a few times, one of us might get interested -- and since there were two of us, we could kind of keep her from getting all grabby over one of us." He grinned fondly. "It worked, too -- on both of us. Neither of us had ever had a girl, and Stick's experience with gay stuff was limited to that one time with me, so it was a chance for everybody to. Two weeks it took her to finally convince Bob's sister Jane, her significant other named Rose, Carol, a single woman that lived a few houses down the block, Christine, her best friend that she had roomed with the one term she went to college, and Mary, married to a man Samantha really did not much like, to accept a vacation package. The only one she confided in completely was Christine, and even she was not told the entire story. After all, Sam was not sure what was or how the story would go..