He hadn't seen them at church. He'd been asking Rita about her cousin but to no avail and now she shows up in church. What was going on?"Uh... we... t...e Ladies Auxiliary are protecting the younger girl... her name is Anita... from the immigration people. We're trying to get her a green card." Protecting her? How?" What sort of bullshit idea did she have?"We... like the church is a sanctuary and we're keeping her here. She lives in the parsonage with Reverend Gillis... and we and the CYG sort of. He smiled and told me who was here to be seen with the worst cases first.Marie was with him, he had been a find for me. He had been trying to hide behind the kitchen when I found him. I talked him into teaching the neighborhood children how to read and write as well as managing records for my patients. He had the older kids record the information when the patients were seen.As I started I saw that both Sam and Cat were already checking the easier ones. Jeremy nodded to the two guards, “Gentle. She grinned. ‘Cat got your tongue old man?’ Heather said. He wasn’t that old, only five or six years her senior. Phil struggled to come up with something smooth and witty. In then end he just spoke his mind. ‘Wow!’ ‘Phil, you’ve seen me in several hundred dollars worth of designer resort wear, hair perfectly coiffed, my better than average legs ensconced in twenty dollar nylons with over priced makeup expertly supplied and this gets a wow?’ ‘That wasn’t the first word that came into my head…the. And I’m free too. Free from the pain, the lies, the suffering, the broken promises… free from the thoughts that my dad doesn’t love me. He surely did. The beast was bigger than him. ‘Let your tears come. Let them water your soul.’ ~Eileen Mayhew The week between his death and his funeral was hard. I cried. Each time I cried, another sliver of my heart replaced itself. I was healing from the inside out. The day my mother and I went to do his hair, I was appalled at his appearance. He’d gotten.