"Well Lacey,I believe we can help you out with all of these things today". "I seeyou already got your lip gloss, so we can head to aisle four and gety...ur enema kit, follow me!"I couldn't believe this was happening, but really didn't have muchchoice but to follow her as she sped up the aisle. I had hoped to avoidmuch interaction with anyone, but things were not going as I had hoped.As we rounded the corner to aisle four there were a couple of people inthe aisle that just froze and stared."Ah,. A couple of shots from the Polaroid had been scanned and - I must say the science in it all surpasses me - were e-mailed to Munich, to whoever it was who decided what people would like to see. The second snap had the three of us, a suggestion that Katrine had put forward. We all waited in the living room while Heinrich returned from the nearby cybercafe.His face was grim. "Bad news, my friend."My heart sank. Gone was the money. Gone were my dreams. Gone was the smattering of hope from our. Gillian paused and looked away. She composed herself and went on. The glamour life had ended suddenly with a corporate jet crash. She mourned the love of her life. Gillian would carry on but never find another. Arranging the finances afterward, she found the stock options and insurance left her independently wealthy and she found outlets for her grief and energies. She became Chairman of the Total Woman Academy Alumni Fund. Elsewhere, she took majority control of a private protection and. Annie wrote that it was not uncommon for grandmother, mother and daughter to have children in the same school grade and each to be expecting again. Apparently there in Cutters Creek, women as old as sixty five and seventy were still getting pregnant.Not only were the locals breeding like rabbits, Annie said, there was an influx of outsiders - or rather, of the trickle of outsiders who stayed in Cutter's Creek for long, few ever left. Most of young men sent to build the new schools and day care.