It is around sunset, my second, when these brutes finally let us stop for another rest. There is no time to take in it's beauty, so sadly I don't enjo... it as much as I did my first.We are afforded no privacy, the men watch us all the time the kin find it disturbing, I know I am not feeling particularly comfortable either. They are like sharks: circling, waiting. We all need to be extra careful. Never to be alone. never to look back or respond.During this stop they took each of us aside and. I decided to turn my mind off for the rest of the day. I started downing beers and watching the Godfather trilogy. By the time I finished and moved on to the Indiana Jones movies I was pretty soused. I switched to Scotch and had a joint on the side. I fell asleep on the couch and slept there through the night; dreams and memories took some time off and gave me a break. Sunday morning I was up early, groggy but hangover free. I went out and got half a dozen bagels thinking they would get me. “She was admitted to surgery immediately, where she remains at this time. Doctors have reported intestinal damage; which they believe to be under control; and multiple lacerations to La Contessa’s liver, which they are still working to save. A donor organ is on standby as a precaution. Her condition is still being described as critical.” He struggled to keep himself from angrily hissing out the word “still.”As the sun’s rays were fading, flashes from cameras began to burst from the crowd.. He was rambunctious as all kids are, maybe a little too competitive and rebellious, but I had grown up that way too, and it had gotten me an academic scholarship, awards and respect in my profession, mathematics. I had David when I was young. I’d like to say he was a ‘love child’, but he was more of a ‘one-night-stand child’. I was wild in my college years from time to time. It was a way to relieve the mind numbing pressure of my classes, especially after I got into graduate school. .