Kate fussed over my coat and a fleece blanket thrown across my lap for warmth, and the White House corps went far out of their way to make me feelwelc...me and look out for me.I felt like a total fraud, riding in a wheelchair and being treated like it was my final days, but the mission was the important thing. I was briefed on the current Vice President's use of his offices in the Old Executive Office Building, where I was sent to sort mail, return simple phone calls, and organize paperwork for. This bodyswitch is insidious and scary!"Valerie said, "I know what you mean. I felt the same reactions aboutyellowrocking the ladies and shaking the men's hands. Holding you now,like this, is very exciting to me. But there is a simple explanation." Okay, I'm listening." We unclenched and got into bed."Think about it," Valerie continued. "We really haven't swapped bodies.You are Valerie and always have been. Right now, your mind has beenstored off-site, so to speak and overwritten by somebody. '" Then he had added another line. "We can still dream and maybe we can just use each other to help us escape. signed: Questing Paladin."For the next several days both Don and Barb managed to be home at dinner time and, although their separate work could never be completely forgotten, they managed to at least not talk about it a lot and spend time just being with each other. Their love making those nights was a little more intense than usual, but still didn't completely recapture what it had. Cinders flew wildly across the room, but our wet clothes shielded our bodies. Once I felt a searing sting on the top of my head, but I pawed fervently at it, and it left nothing but a mild irritation.Then the flames died away like a candle being snuffed out, leaving a black carpet of orphaned smoke that was slowly pulled through the small window to join the poisonous smog of the greencoal-fueled, huge furnaces that heated every floor of the sky-reaching towers of the city, contributing to the.