"Pleased to meet you Ann, thank you for taking care of Tracy for me. Would you like some tea or coffee, I was just about to make some." I accepted.We ...at and chatted for a while, I managed to swing the conversation round to his personal life, all the while trying not to appear that I was prying, which of course I was. Ron, as I was told to call him, came across as fairly lonely, but not bitter after being left on his own to care for Tracy. He was a lorry driver and spent a fair bit of time on. And next to Kerrie was Julia, a self proclaimed metal chick with shoulder deep black hair which desperately needed re-dying to conceal her original blonde that was threatening to show on her roots. One of the most laid back chicks you had ever seen, she often responded with a joke or sarcasm. The only times you ever really saw her go all out and wild was at concerts where she would happily leap into a mosh pit, flailing with the best of them.And finally, your best friend who was stood right. "He just stared at me with a look of confusion on his face."I guess it was just easier to do things that would make people hate merather than admit that I hated myself."It was my mouth moving and my voice saying the words, but they wereAlana's words and feelings. I couldn't explain how I knew that Alana feltthat way, I just knew that she did, and in that moment, everythingstarted to make a bit more sense to me.She had been in a spiral of self-loathing for the better part of a year,becoming. " I chuckled a bit at the joke; the papers and news channels were still full of talk over last week's massive power outage that hit the northeastern US and apparently parts of Canada as well. It was apparently the largest blackout in history and they were saying that overload of the power grid from massive air conditioner use had been the cause."Indeed. Well, Mr. Mason, we have a small problem here that perhaps you could assist us with. As you know, Clyde Kovic is no longer with the Office of.