?Alice on the pig table? became a source of amusement for all except Alice. The old table in the barn had found a new lease of life.What started as a ...ew beatings to instill discipline into the young girl soon started to become something quite different. It was early summer and as I had cleared the gardens that spring, on the orders of Mr. Barwick, I had put aside some of the thin, flexible young birch and willow branches cut from the trees. We all knew what they were for, they had been placed. We've seen you around and at the pool and you seem much nicer than the other guy that used to live here so we thought it would be good if you could come and meet your neighbors and have a good time. Tell us you'll come, Plllleeeeaaaasssseeee?" The wild thing about this is that all three said it at the same time and didn't get out of sync."That would be nice; and I thank you. My name is Samuel but you can call me Sam; what are your names?" I asked."My name is Althea; my name is Belinda; my name. My mom had already died a long time ago ago, so apart from somedistant relatives I never talk to I'm the last remaining member of myfamily.As if all of that wasn't bad enough, now my car is having problems too. Ihad ended up working overtime until 11:00 at night, before I finally gotto leave work. Yet on the drive home my car made a loud sputtering soundand stopped running right in the middle of the road. My cellphone had runout of power early in the day and I was miles outside city limits, so. Oh Boy – we found completed, or sold files, in there along mostly open listing files. There were even some documents that were loose. That would also be a one-person project.“Hey, Sis – I was thinking earlier that there should be a microwave and maybe one of those small refrigerators back here somewhere. I just thought; maybe also a coffee maker. Dad would love that, want to go in halves on that?”“Uh, no – I want to get you a couple presents with the money I’ve got,” she said.“Hey there, I.