Surely there is nothing that might hold your attention for so long. Let's go for a drink and some food, please."Things must have turned out right for ...lfred to be so chipper all of a sudden. More food I didn't need, but he would have to work for his. I told him about my bad experiences and walked him a few blocks to a more than decent restaurant. "You eat and enjoy, Alfred. My appetite has been ruined already. I shall stick to liquids."The place was up-scale, quiet, with polite and efficient. In the living room Daniel grabbed an aluminum foil wrapped burrito offthe breakfast bar and devoured it quickly then wiped his mouth on theshoulder of his shirt, he went to the laundry basket on the couch andpicked through the clothes.Fred stood at the mouth of the hall watching this beauty, bent over abasket of clothes, the shirt was long enough to cover her ass justbarely, but it was perfect, and that much he could see.Fred chewed on his lip."Emm- I should take a shower before I get dressed,". " The night was spent in a hotel room, and they all were glad for a chance to work off the excess energy they had built up over the fight that day.The next morning when they woke up, Maria suddenly had a sick feeling and an urge to vomit everything she had eaten for the last week or so. She barely made it to the chamber pot in time, and she felt pretty lousy for the rest of the day. Fortunately, that day was a dud as far as excitement went, so Maria did not have to worry about fighting.The next. One of my earliest memories is going tothe beauty parlor every week with my mother and waiting for her to gether hair done. This was in the 60's when roller sets were common,particularly among mothers and wearing curlers in public wasacceptable. On Saturday afternoon it was especially common for women,including my mother, to go out in public with their hair up in curlers.At age 8, I remember one damp Spring Saturday when we were on our wayto the grocery store, my mother stopped at a.