‘Ah…I…uh, I guess I ought to put them in water, huh?’ she asked. ‘If you want them to last,’ Mr. Damiano said. ‘Have you a deep vase and...some scissors?’ ‘Ah…I, um, I, ah, think so,’ Lori replied. After searching for a while, she finally came up with a vase and pair of scissors. ‘I’ll show you what to do, so you know the next time someone brings you roses,’ Mr. Damiano said. He trimmed a little off the bottom of each stem, put them in the vase, then poured some powder from a packet in the box. I went into the pizza parlor and got myself something. I got a medium pepperoni pizza (always good) thinking that SD would be coming by soon and I’d share with her before we went down to Memphis. Well, noon came and went and I finally left the pizza parlor about 1:10 PM – thinking that SD just led me on and that was that – move on to the next. I drove off and went back to my room at the barracks and started researching where I’d be moving off base – as an E-5 I did get to move off the base. Unable to move or to express herself she did, as I had imagined, become turned in on her own thoughts. Released from her casing, though, she soon reverted to her original character.Without the restraint of the Plastolite head covering, she was able to (and indeed did) give vent to her feelings using her wide-ranging and frequently inventive vocabulary. I used a variety of gags on the girl over the coming few days. None of them had markedly better effect than any of the others. And, of course,. The sheriff already knows about the Durham county car we are driving, I am therefore dumping it. Just in case it hasn’t been turned in, we can take it back to the company over the weekend. I have things to do at home anyway.When you need questions answered, you personally write them down, then we do a dead drop. After that I meet with The commissar and get the answers. I take them somewhere and run the book code on them. Then I’ll send the answers to your encrypted email.”“That seems like a lot.