She suddenly grows quiet. She needed to find the right words to say what she felt. ''What did your mom tell you about us, about me?'' Uncle Pat was ...oncerned that Aunt Clair would try to poison his daughter's mind against us.Cherry sat up to face her father. She needed to see the look in his eyes when she tells him her mother's truth. ''My mom said that she loved you and that she wanted a life with only you and you wouldn't protect her from your family. She said that our family is all messed. We spent two quiet days on the ranch.Fred and Elizabeth Olafson took us back to the Little River Inn. Sally was glad to see us again. She apologized to Beth and Mira Spio. The inn was not centaur-compliant. They had to use the park for their bathroom. We were able to eat in the Wisteria Room. Beth really liked the abalone. Abalone would be another cold water animal for Bangalore.We flew back to Sonoma County. I received the good news that the committee had selected forty doctors and sixty. I had actually put in for this assignment, wanting to do my part to “save the world from the Red Menace,” but it didn’t take too long for disillusionment to set in. The South Vietnamese didn’t really like us and had no interest in American-style democracy. We were just another tool in their civil war with the North.I resigned myself to just doing my job, serving out my term then never seeing this God-forsaken country again.Then she came into my life.Tran Van Hoa was a new employee at the. I didn’t mind, given Michelle was cute and flirted quite a bit. Her lab partner, Tracey, seemed shy and could best be described as plain.At lunch, I got the same question from Kathy as I had from Erin. We agreed to have lunch on Saturday. We agreed that I’d pick her up around 11:00am, have lunch, and then spend a couple of hours just hanging out. After she walked away happy, I tracked down Lars Johanson, the Swedish exchange student.Lars was about 6’2” with blond hair and blue eyes. It took.