”“I’m still in a state of shock, myself,” says Kathleen. “To get away from house talk, you wanted to discuss some other things with us.”Ma...c looks to Barbara for direction and she takes up the discussion. “Kyle, let me tell you what we know and why we’re here. I’m not going to ask you to reveal or confirm anything, though feel free to share anything you’re comfortable with telling us.”“OK.”“As you’ve probably figured out we’re Special Forces officers. What isn’t obvious is we’re specialists in. At lunch on Tuesday, I saw Alex. He was looking a little haggard."Did the English exam this morning." And?" I think I did well, but I'm a little unsure. Sort of the story of my life right now." Friday, we're going to go over those exams and see how we did. We'll know next week, anyway."We talked and ate, and I was feeling like Alex needed something. As we left the Union, I said, "Come up to the room for a while?"We sat and talked for a while, but that wasn't helping Alex. I took off my clothes,. She had the Woody Allen and Simpsons quotes, as you might guess. This piece has the plot of a telephone directory and the character development of zip codes. It’s just a bunch of thoughts. Some of you readers have one-track minds. I’m not referring to you perverts, but rather to those of you who expect life to be sequential. So here’s some guidance on four tracks. There are a couple dozen TOPICS, related, of course. Most contain four parts. (1) Cindi’s thoughts and dialogs, mostly. My mother had taken me and waited outside in the car until the concert was over.After we finished our drinks, I was going to order the Uber, but Fred told us that he’d gotten a card from the driver last night. He suggested we call him directly, instead of going through Uber.“He said he would take us for half price if we called him direct,” Fred suggested.“Oh,” I said, “well give me his number, and I’ll call him.”“I already did, he’s on his way. He’ll be here in three minutes.”We all got ready.