. Oh Hi Carl ... help me. Please. I need to go outside." Outside? DD? What?" I NEED TO GO OUT SIDE ... NOW, Carl. OUT ... NOW." She clutched at her he...t festering brain ... OW!! ... she was radiating. "I nnned to go out, Carl ... I need air ... help me Carl. OUTSIDE Carl..." She dropped - her - crutches. They fell so slowly.The clatter was enormous ... she took a step ... now her hips were on fire ... she couldn't grab her head and her hips at the same time. Out of sheer willpower DD threw one. I was back in my hometown which was a ninety-minute flight from my university. Just close enough to visit but far enough away to give me space to grow and gain independence.I caught the bus into town which would pass two streets from my house, and as I settled back into my seat, I felt myself relax as all the familiar sights of my childhood passed by.I hopped off outside Grimaldi’s bakery, hefted my bag, and with a quick wave to old Mrs. Grimaldi, I headed home. I caught myself smiling as I. I shared my wife a couple of times in the past during my service years, it`s easier there cos every few years you get sent off somewhere new with fresh folk, and of course the family , that`s the greater family , usually are not in earshot if things did get leaked. As a civvi it`s not quite so easy as in the main you stay pretty much in the same group of people and everyone knows you and your folks in a local area, be it street, village , town or city! Just think about it, most average folk. " In a word, she would notthink of going there without me. She returns very quick - "What you sendFriday away for? Take kill Friday, no send Friday away." This she spokeso earnestly that I saw tears form in her pretty eyes. In a word, I soplainly discovered the utmost affection in her to me, and a firmresolution in her, that I told her then and often after, that I wouldnever send her away from me if she was willing to stay with me.After that, I came to know her, in the sense that the.