Auto mechanics were about clear as mud for me, so I made all the right noises and then suggested I give her a ride home, after turning her car over to...the Car Care Center for repair.She cried some more and said, “I can’t afford that.” Her tone of voice bordered on surrender, so I did what I do well.“Let’s get the professionals to give it their best and see what they suggest. You can always veto their estimate and go another route but at least you’ll know what’s wrong.” She was not convinced but. “Not good,” she said, “He was home for the first time in five days and all we wanted to do was watch hockey.” She paused and then stressed “Hockey.”“Well you know men, they have very limited interests. Sex, food and sports.”“Well he only seems to have two,” she said frustrated.Later, at the end of day she came in to my room all flushed and said, “I got flowers sent to me.” She looked at me all freaked out, “At work.”I had sent the flowers so playing dumb I said, “Well that is romantic. At least. .." She looked more closely at Amy, surprising an identical pain mirrored in her vivid blue eyes. "Yes, I love him. As much as you do. Amy, what are we going to do? I need him! And he needs me, if he would only admit it. Or else, he needs you. One of us, anyway. He's forced himself to think of us as daughters, taking the place of the children he lost all those years ago, and I don't know how to change that. All that he lets himself see is the difference in our ages, telling himself that he's. As he ate the steak and veggies he had cooked for himself, washed down with the rest of the bottle of red wine from the previous night, he planned tomorrow's activities, before watching a little TV then turning in for an early night.Wednesday Week 12Dave's first activity after his leisurely breakfast was the 10 am tour of the Venus Gold Battery, which provided crushing facilities for small miners long after other mills had closed down. He discovered that it was the largest surviving battery.