All I know is that I had been alone for almost four months when Michael came home for his Christmas break."Hi, mom." Michael said while walking the fi...al few steps to me. I smiled as he hugged me. He hadn't initiated a hug since he was five years old. The separation seemed to have done him some good."Well hello honey," I said hugging him back. I stepped back to appraise him. Michael had changed, but the change didn't seem to be so much physical as in the way he carried himself. "You seem to be. Will you really set aside and cover an area one hundred by one hundred metres for me to build a real garden?”“The land there has a gentle slope, so I’ll make it bigger.” Pulling out my cell phone I call Mr Small, because he has weekend duty. “John, Al. The new residence. I’ve got a last minute addition. Put together some ideas on where to set up an enclosed dome near the main house, it’s to have a diameter of one hundred and fifty metres. It doesn’t have to be flat, but it will need utilities. Or perhaps there was something about her obvious mastery, her gentle dominance of the brute strength of the animal that stirred me. Whatever it was, after the first evening I found myself waiting anxiously for her to appear, and it would have taken fire or flood to have got me off the veranda while they were working together below me. The motel was nothing flash, they liked to call themselves a family motel, but it was very comfortable and all the staff were friendly, none more so than the. Her shoulder-length hair was medium auburn and her blue eyes sparkled like sapphires.Once she got her ice cream dessert and paid for it, she flashed an equally dazzling smile.Haylie looked at Paul, showed her to him, and said, "Check out the redhead. Isn't she gorgeous, Paul?"Paul took a look at the stunning redhead and replied, "Wow, she looks hot! How about she sit with us?" Hey Miss, would you like to sit with us?" Paul said to the redhead, motioning her to join them."Sure." She said with a.