As I walk into the living room I see the two of them chatting animatedly. “Good morning, honey” I say pleasantly.Sumitra’s eyes are downcast. Ha...sa looks me right in the eyes. Fire. She is flushed and angry.Seeing the two of them together on the sofa, they could be sisters instead of mother and daughter. Both wearing their dressing gowns. Both with beautiful almond shaped big eyes, high cheekbones and full lips. “What is good this morning? I can’t believe you did that to Mom last night. She. "Why not get a cab HOME?" He wondered."It's too far to get a cab back to get my own car in the morning, plus it's embarrassing ... and I need someone..." She added sheepishly."Where are you?" He asked exhaling in a resigned tone."I'm at Corky's, I can get a cab." Ann insisted."No, I'm far too visible in this town to have cabbies dropping drunken women off at my residence. Corky's is in that little strip mall next to the Super Drug?" Yes, it's not 5 minutes from you." She said."I'm leaving now,. "Sure, mom," Bobbi replied, "it shouldn't take me more than ten minutes or so!" "It had been so long since the two of them had done anything together," thought Tara, so two days in the mountains would be good for both of them!!! Bobbi did more than an adequate job of scrounging dry wood, and in a few minutes, Tara had a roaring fire going with a pot of beef stew hanging from a tripod in the middle of the flames. The cool air was filled with the aroma of boiling stew, so coupled with not having. Up close, it was readily apparent that the model was still a work in progress, but it had progressed past the point of being nothing more than a papier-mache outline.George cleared his throat, and in a lecturing voice I was sure he’d learned at West Point, began talking. As he started, I wondered if he would follow the centuries old three-part military briefing practice of: 1) Tell them the information you’ll be telling them; 2) Tell them the information; and 3) Tell them the information you.