Before the change, we'd been saving up for in vitrofertilization. I have it all here, a little over $25,000. It's a smallprice, really. I'm willing to...give up anything--everything!--if you can...ifyou can help me become a mother."The Wizard walked around the counter and silently put an arm around Kevin'sshoulders."My boy, the men who visit me are chauvinists and lechers; it's rare that Iencounter someone in this shop who comes from a place of genuine love." Hereached up to a shelf and pulled. The next thing I remember is sitting on my moms bed with an ice pack on my face and another on my hand and everybody's my moms getting ready to take me to the hospital. I repeatedly kept saying sorry (I wasn't supposed to go anywhere because I went to court the day before for too many unexcused absences). My mom kept saying,"it's okay baby." Then blank. I don't regain full consciousness until we arrive at the hospital with Chris and Rick. We brought them with us because I didn't remember a. This makes sense, given how sparsely traversed Earth's segment is much of the time. For a good part of my journey, however, I seemed to have connected onto a superhighway.I quickly encountered eight full lanes of traffic going each direction. My map guided me towards the outside where the slower traffic moved, though even on foot I was faster than many travelers. The inside lanes in both directions often rumbled and shook from huge wheeled and tracked vehicles, some seemingly the size of. Selena looked over and saw Joe's bottle had moved so she knew he had been awake at least once. When she tried to get up he opened his eyes and looked around, confused."You're still home Joe and you can bet I'm glad. Last night was something I REALLY needed." She said as she leaned up and kissed him."Let me fix your pajamas and I'll get those two to come in and move you to the other bed so we can get you into the chair." She said as she got up and came around to his side.In no time the girls had.