" Steve nodded in agreement."You're absolutely right, I could have," he said. "But you needed to lose something more in all this, dear. I lost my wife... Kimberly lost her innocence, and now... for at least a couple of weekends... you lost your husband to your baby sister," Steve said bitterly. "Now we're all even," he told her. "Everybody's hurt and nobody's a winner."Barbara stared at him. She didn't know Steve had been capable of saying such cruel things. A stray thought ran through her mind.. The final day of the convention arrived at last. Tyler went up to the122nd floor as always, donned his AG&M logo dress and boots, and stoodaround for another few hours while Noah and his juniors worked thetable. The crowd was much lighter today... stragglers who hadn't caughtan earlier rocket-flight home, Tyler figured. The convention center wasmuch quieter as a result, not to mention much easier to see around.Losing six inches of height had prevented Tyler from seeing much ofanything during. We smoked it down to a near-nothing roach. "Darn, I'm thirsty," she rasped. "Crack me a cold beer." We drank 'em all up, Ashley." There were two more left before we started foolin' around," she stated, accurately. "What'd you do, drink 'em WHILE we were making love?" Well.... I'll run to the corner store and get more. Won't take ten minutes," I offered. I noticed she, with a serious case of cotton mouth, was eyeing the bottle on the table. With the candle right behind it, I could see there was. Main wapas lauta to ghar main bas papa the wo bataye ki maa gaav chali gayi hai , gaav se phone aaya tha ki wahan kuch kaam hai , maine kaha ki theek hai , aur so gaya kal subah hi maine papa se kaha ki mujhe bhi gaav ghoomne ka mood hai to main bhi ghoom aata hoon , papa ne haan haan bol di aur main bina time waste kare gaav nikal liya . Gaav pahuchte hi mera swagat hua aur nani boli ki maa ka man thoda ukhra hua tha to wo khet main zara ghoomne gayi hai . Maine kaha “lata hoon maako uska mood.