It didn't matter, he thought, as the flood of administrative trivia of moving to a new sector and a new job in the Border Patrol consuming his morning...abated. From his rented house in La Mesa, he could look down the slope to the Navy's yards, and beyond that sparkled the blue ocean.It was like coming home. Next week his mother would fly out from New York to visit. Osvaldo wished he knew more about what happened to Sparks and her boyfriend after the gunfight, his rest was uneasy knowing his life. A beautiful people, the tribe knew no conflict. That was why my folks had gone to investigate them and stayed to live there so long. They never wore clothes of any sort... they held everything in common including sex. They enjoyed sex with each other indiscriminately. Every child was a product of the tribe, belonged to and was the responsibility of the total tribe and was loved by one and all. No one knew who the father of any child was and no one cared.There was a matriarch who was the arbiter. Knowing what she was doing to herself only made me come all the harder. I sagged against the tree, my legs weak and trembling. Lynn fished a tissue from beneath the cuff of her blouse and wiped me clean before putting me back in the panties."Come along Angela, you have the dishes to do." She almost had to support me on the way home. Once there she was briskly back to business and I was allowed only a short pause before I was sent to the kitchen and then made to change into the baby doll.At nine. The government is feeding people and has set up centers for those without a place to live. Chances are excellent that their cell phones don’t work. How could they with no power for the cell towers for that whole end of the country? Too much of the power grid was destroyed, including several generating stations, for things to be back to normal in this short a period of time. We’ll find them eventually, but it’s going to take time — maybe a lot of time.”“I know. I know,” Selina snuffled out as.