"I couldn't see saddling a young girl with a name like that, even if he is from Australia. I vetoed his second choice, too, Sheila." Sheila isn't so b...d," Sheila Bernhardt said."My Dad was stationed in Australia," Sarah replied. "No offense, Sheila, but I wasn't going to name my daughter that." So what did you finally decide on?" Kalliste swung her dark hair over her shoulder with a practiced flip. "Hopefully you gave her a beautiful name." I gave her the most beautiful name in the world,". ”She scooted up and leaned against the headboard, motioning me to sit next to her. When we were settled, she put her arm around me and just held me. I sorted through what I was feeling and felt the tickle of emotions. Sorrow, depression, anger, disgust, and even hope.“Tell me about today’s painting,” she finally said.I told her. I told her about all the emotions it dredged up for me to paint it and how mad I got because we just weren’t doing anything. How I realized the entire mural was. We talked about it a few times and he simply couldn’t bring himself to ask one of the girls out or even start a conversation. Whenever a girl tried to start a conversation with him, he just got flustered and couldn’t put three words together in a logical string.After I graduated from high school, Tina and I went to different colleges so our romance was pretty much over. Chris had one more year in high school, then he wanted to come to Oregon State with me. I enjoy mathematics and was very good. I had personally witnessed Snowflake Healer Iris leading home a non entity Golden just below the legal height limit of citizenship last night. This morning I recognized the voice of Citizen Iris as the one crying for help. I made a decision to let events proceed on their own course."Iris wailed. "You heard! You heard, but failed to come to my aid. You could have saved me! Why, why did you let me become the victim and lose my citizenship?" What would you have me do, Snowflake? I am a Golden.