.. yes and no ... I have to go to work again at 6 thisevening and we don't close until 1am." Well, we have until 6 then don't we?" Sure or maybe 5:30 ...o I can change clothes for work." OK then .... which of us lives closer .... my place is about 10 minutes inthat direction."I laughed and said "And mine is about 10 minutes in the other direction.... I assume you are referring to walking time?" Yes .... so we live that close to each other .... this is just so bizarre.... wonderfully bizarre," she. I know this and I've come to accept it. But Smeralda is different - you have had a relationship with her for at least the last five years. Whether it was a partnership or just an agreement, she has been an integral part of your life. When you started shutting her out, it hurt her." She told you that?" He glared at her, daring her to respond - to interfere, in something that was not her business."No, she didn't have to. She raised me, Dad, while you worked a gazillion hours and were never home,. Life ain’t easy.” He’s a former street dog; he knows these things.I’d changed a lot since my personal day of reckoning. The slightly overweight and pasty me, was now a white-haired hunk of brown rawhide. Nobody in my old life would recognize me now. I was just a solitary old boat-bum, with his dog.It’s hot in the Leewards and I was sweating gallons. I needed a beer, so I pulled on a t-shirt and strolled down the dock to Tickles. That place has all the charm of a shopping-mall TGI-Friday’s, but. Turning to Kim she said, "You must be Kimberly Moyer. Are you going to give me a hard time, too, or will you just give me a kiss without making a fight out of it?"The redhead didn't know what to do but she found herself moving towards Kathy. Kathy took her in her arms and kissed her the same way she had kissed Kris, with the purest love flowing from her lips. Like her friend, Kim put her arms around Kathy and hugged while she just felt the most incredible sensation flow from her lips through.