"I'm sorry, Ed never told me the full story why your daughter needed the hearing aids," Sarah said. The manager sighed, "She got a high fever when she...was an infant and she lost a good part of her hearing because of the fever." "She couldn't learn to talk very well because she could barely her our voices." "Ed would never tell me how much they cost, but being custom made, I know they cost a lot and they will have to be changed as she grows older." "But Ed already paid for any changes that have. Albert was pleased.Lisa's phone rang and she told Albert that her Dad was finally leaving. She asked him if she could come back tomorrow and Albert found himself agreeing. He even gave her a pass-key for the main gate. He didn't fully understand why afterwards. Perhaps it was just that the girl was very persuasive.The next day, Lisa arrived at nine and let herself in the gate. She wore her blue, work overalls and had tied her hair up under a cap. Albert briefly looked up, then continued. "I knew better than that. "Yes it does. I can feel your ... anxiety for the term. Was it a name you used for someone else?"She hesitated, her eyes rolling left and right, trying to avoid my gaze. I was right though, she had used it for someone else. Someone she felt for. She felt love and pain and loss for that person. All those emotions were so strong in her but there wasn't a story to go with the feelings."I normally wouldn't push, but you're holding something back, bottling it up in you.. Lois hugged herself. She couldn’t believe she was having fantasies about having a long-term relationship with Dennis, a teenager. On the other hand, the thought of giving him up caused her considerable pain. And what about her relationship with Doreen Ingalls? She and Doreen had been lovers for almost a year. Could she give that up? Her life kept getting more and more confusing and troubling. She opened the glass door of the shower, stepped inside, and felt the stinging spray pelting her body..