Eventually, I blinked a few times and looked around me – I'd come back to the real world. A few weeks earlier a fawn and doe had visited with me abo...t this time of day in this clearing. As I trotted back to the house, my mind turned so easily to Crystal and Ellen. Each of them had gone out of their way to pledge their deep love to me during our trip. For Crystal, this was not unusual; we deeply loved each other. For Ellen, her sister, she'd never confessed her love to me in the deep, committed,. I look through the window and see the old man has takenoff the rope, and then I feel a noise and a trembling. Somehow you haveturned the motor on.You get in, take the wheel, then move some of those levers, and the boatstart moving forward. I watch you sailing the ship to turn it around. Theold man waves his hand to us and you answer with a wild whistle which Idon’t know where it comes from. I laugh. Everything seems to me like amovie. You look at me and say, “Come on, sailor. Would you like to. He and I are definitely excellent ‘fuck buddies’.’ ‘It was an accidental encounter, Beth,’ Rick explained. ‘I was bringing some shirts down here and Claire was bent over the dryer. Before we knew it, we were hooked up.’ I looked around the laundry room. Stacks of clean laundry were on every horizontal surface. Claire had been busy in more ways than one. ‘What the hell…?’ I stammered, but she interrupted. ‘I wanted to do my laundry, but I didn’t have enough whites to make a full load.’ ‘And…’ I. Rosa looked around for Analisa and saw her sitting next to Marshal Crow and his wife, Miranda. Miranda was wearing one of the Mexican blouses and a long flowing skirt almost identical to the one Analisa wore. Her face was flushed and her long dark hair was combed to fall to her hips in back.They were laughing and talking together like old friends when Analisa looked up to see Rosa wave her free hand over her head.“Come dance with me,” Analisa said as she jumped up and kicked her sandals off her.