I softened the past here and there, only the little tears I thought safe to mend. But even the fights, the tears, the heart-ache, those hardest hittin... bolts came couched in the knowledge that each instance of sorrow would soon pass, replaced by the unfailing love that lasted across the eons. Except for the one unavoidable end. And having had the woman I loved ripped from me, it was so easy to love this second chance. I could see my future, a mirror of my past, repeated again forever… Only I. . that we'd be best to alternate weeks. Perhaps even two weeks per turn?" he tried.I nodded. "Yes. Two week turns would permit vacation time. Any indication they plan on opening on Sundays?" Not yet, but it seems to be happening everywhere else, so I think we should prepare for it." Does a management trainee make any sense ... when we've evaluated our staff that is?"He smiled. "It makes a lot of sense. I doubt Sundays will be terribly busy except around the Christmas season, so that would give. ”“I think you’re right. When do you have time to visit?”“I’m going to be in Cincinnati for an interview at UC on Thursday the 20th, so maybe that will work.”The timing meant I would have the opportunity to discuss things with Father Nicholas and probably the bishop before I saw Angie, so everything would be ready for me to tell her, and then I could speak to Elizaveta’s dad.“You still plan to go to McKinley Medical School, right?” Doctor Mercer asked.“Yes, but we’re interviewing at five schools. You feel so disgusted, his skin in you, on you! His heat knives through you.“Fuck, honey,” he moans, for the first time cursing. “So tight.”A wail of misery and pain escapes your lips as you feel your insides widen to impossible widths. “Ss..ss… stop! It hurts!”“I know, baby, I know,” he says, nodding his head as if he understands the pain, the ultimate betrayal of it all. He smiles at you. “The biggest part is in you now. The rest is easy. See?” You don’t want to look. Somehow, he manages to.