I donated one to the inhabitants of ‘t’other barge’, as Corporal Truman had called the vessel, and shared the other with the bargees of my boat ...nd Humphrey and Gerda.Thanks to Professor Potter’s potion, the pair’s love life had returned to full, frequent, and noisy, bloom. I felt sure that once back in London it would not be long before Gerda would be Humphrey Appleby’s ‘housekeeper’ in Pimlico, and companion in lust at XTC’s Brighton Pleasure Dome.Brentford Lock. May 10th May 1832Before. In his current form he was able to do both with a reality that startled him into numbed consciousness. He opened sleepy eyes looking around an unfamiliar room when he heard Charmaine calling to him from the shower, asking if he was going to sleep all day. ‘Dreams are so strange. Sometimes they remove guilt from us so we can enjoy ourselves without inhibition and sometimes they can reveal our innermost fears and desires,’ he thought. He didn’t understand the content of the dreams fearing he was. "Hey, Randy," he says, "Welcome back!" He wipes a tear off his cheek with the back of his hand.I remember thinking, 'What the hell is he talking about? Welcome back from where?'I gradually become aware that I'm in a hospital bed surrounded by electronics, IV tubes in my arms and people fussing over me. I have this dull ache in my lower back and I try to shift to a more comfortable position but I can't. I'm so weak it takes a supreme effort to lift my head to see why. I'm in a plaster cast from. I could not imagine to get a sweeter deal than this; although I was his only k** and after mom having gone, we two were the only ones to take care of each other but I also realized, how he used to tell me that he rose from the dirt poor level and if not very rich; at least he had made his first million and now running his small but decent construction business with some employees; a nice looking office and a very good living in a big house and a promise to buy me a small house too. Anyway soon,.