At first, I didn’t recognize the two women we approached from behind. I hadn’t seen Carol since Easter, she had dyed her hair and was now seven mo...ths pregnant. Carol was talking to her mother-in-law and when she turned her head, she saw us and said something. Woody’s mom turned just as we came up to them. ‘Hi, Sandy,’ they said in unison. ‘Hi Carol. Hi Mom,’ I said as I hugged his mother, not realizing how I had addressed her. If she or Woody noticed, they did not react. Carol, of course, was. Designs to review. Contracts to revise. New projects to consider. I was being very open to new ideas; anything that was scientifically sound, I was approving for short-term funding. Long-term backing I would give after some time and effort yielded signs of results. Thus far, the tactic had been reasonably successful with some unlikely concepts developing some useful benefits. Two were unintentional and one was, in fact, the opposite of its intended goal. But that was part of the fun of science.. Richard Green had been one of the men that had given Ed a lot of problems in the early days. Now, the man seemed to hold Ed up as a role model. Richard said, “You might not want to go in there. There are some news people looking to get a story about you and John.”“Who else is in there?”Richard answered, “Shirley, Manuel, Joe, and a couple of other people.”Ed said, “I can’t let the press keep me out of my favorite place. So, how about I buy you a coke and we ignore them?”Shaking his head and. .. I looked more into past Chinese death penalty cases at the prison that was here. After a deep dive into Baidu, I found two more notable ones.They were both striking.The first one was of a pudgy girl, a young girl, who’d helped her boyfriend sell meth, and was convicted, sentenced to die.There was a series of pictures of her, and I was shook by her youthful exuberance, a charisma she exuded that leapt off my phone’s small square screen.The series of photos showed the girl smiling, eating.