Having arrived at this conclusion, she acted on it immediately."I know it seems too soon, but I have decided to go to that Real Estate convention in A...lanta, next week-end, after all. You guys are eighteen, and sixteen now, and without Daddy, we all have to be more independent, and still depend on each other. So, I'm going to leave you alone, this week-end. You can depend on, and support, each other. I'm not going to tell you how to behave. You're old enough to make up your own minds. I'm sure. As a newsong started, she shook her head and moved back to where the girlswere. "Okay," she announced defiantly to Sara, "I danced. Goodenough?"Sara sighed. "What am I going to do with you?" she asked rhetorically."You said dance, and I danced." Tommi noticed that guys were stillglancing her way, but their expressions were different."All you did was announce to every guy here that you're not interestedin them," Sara sighed."Good," Tommi countered smugly. "Mission accomplished."Sara tilted. Rumor had it that he was so drugged up that neither he nor his high school buddy were in control when the vehicle sailed off the road.(Careful examination of Google Maps reveal that RED GRADE road is much altered in the nearly half century since the events mentioned took place. Perhaps it was the loss of such an illustrious scion of a famous family that prompted the Forest Service to smooth out the wrinkles. My most recent Red Grade experience would have been 1978 when I was helping a church. I told him "Hey, what if yourmom comes home…give `em back". He said he didn't care, doffed hisown trunks, and dared me to dive naked. He used to dare me all thetime, and would usually do the dare himself first, knowing mypubescent pride would make me to follow suit. Pretty soon we wereboth doing a naked dive competition and generally acting goofy.I recall it was the first time I swam nude, and it felt so good tobe free of that little piece of cloth. The water flowing unhinderedbetween my legs.