As she put it, “Annie, you need some companionship, and there is no better love received, than the love from a shelter dog”. I was skeptical at f...rst, but when I went there I absolutely felt a kinship with a dog named Bennie. Bennie is a retriever lab mix that had hit by a car and left for dead, and he too was recovering from hip surgery. I was warned by the staff that Bennie would require plenty of exercise and therapy, but I assured the staff that he and I would trudge through our recovery. My pelvic bone smashed into her love mound with an urgency that neither one of us realized. Veronica said, “You’re number eighty-three. I’ll never forget you.”I laughed and said, “I’m your brother. How could you ever forget me?”She too laughed and said, “No stupid. I will never forget that you were number eighty-three.”Puzzled I asked, “What’s so special about being number eighty-three?”She thrust her hips up at me hard in an effort to throw me off her. Then she said, “It’s my birth year you. I drop my bag onthe double desk and pull out my laptop from DPA/Homestake and warm itup.When I sit down on the bed, as I do. I notice a box laying on the bed?So I open it and find a framed piece of paper and a stone?The note on it says, 'to Kyley good luck Twain'. Then the frame has asmall gold plaque, at its bottom. "This small stone started your journeyhere....may it bring luck!" I now recognize the stone. Its that firstone...from my very first week here, and the paper? Its the one. ”So Don and I made a couple of more changes to the drawing. He said he was at the point where he needed to make a prototype. This would take around 2 weeks, and he would call when it was finished. We waited almost two weeks.The phone rang. Terry answered it, “Hi Don, chuck's not here right now. He went to do a couple of things on the boat. He should be back in a couple of hours.”“That's all right. Let him know that the prototype is in. I just need to know when to bring it over so you can test.