..Present – Stacy – In the woodsWhen Ben said, 'ride hard' he wasn't kidding! He's really pushed all of us today and I'm beat, Patches is beat, Bo...looks beat and even Boo-Boo looks exhausted. I question, "Ben are we going to stop for the night soon?"Ben points to the dusky sky and says, "You see these lights above the trees? I want to see what they are and then we will stop."We ride for another weary thirty minutes then I see what looks to be an oasis in the middle of a desert...Present – Ben –. “But I do not know difference here, not now,” I finish.She turns her head briefly to smile at me. “You’ll learn, dear. It’s one of the things we’re going to have to work hard on in the next few weeks, before we move, this whole business of money. Because you’re going to have a lot of it.”“But why so much?” I ask. “Much money, and they buy fine house for us, and we work only very little for all this. If this can be called work.”“What do you mean?”“Linda, I grow crop, this is work,” I explain. “I. Please suck!”Feeding Jeffrey had changed Ronnie. It was something she had a hard time articulating, even to herself, but she knew she was different, and would always be different from the young woman who had first walked into this house. She wasn’t a philosopher. The argument that change is constant, and that we are never the same person we were even minutes ago, would have registered with her as “silly”. The second or third time Jeffrey latched on and she felt the fleeting sting of her milk. Yes! The marks on the blank showed where the cuts had to be made.Alice took the marked blank back to the key shop and found the same man who had waited on her before. He recognized her, so no further explanation was required. He spent about 10 minutes working on the key and came back. "Here you are, Ma'am. This key should work as well as the original."Alice paid for the work, thanked the man profusely, and gave him a $5 tip. She rushed back to me and we were in business! Alice fixed herself up.