I followed reluctantly and she had to pull my leash. ‘Don’t do that, else you have to be punished!’ she warned me. Once in the back, the only th...ng I saw were cages, no hospital beds or anything?? Most of the cages were occupied with dogs. The dogs were standing with their feet tied to the sides of the cage and their heads secured through a hole on the far side of the cage.Jeanette stopped at an empty cage and opened the door. The height of the cage was half my size it came up to middle. ‘Come. Noon today ... he'll understand," Presidential Chief of Staff Barnes called out to his secretary in her outer office."Right away, Chief. You've got that missile defense contract group coming in at 12:15. Do I cancel, or reschedule?" Tell them to go ... oh, never mind. Reschedule. Tell them to make it dinner, a free evening next week, on their dime. A really big dime or it isn't worth wasting my time." You got it, Chief!"The two men sat at an isolated park bench near a small pond. Zaglinder was. For a while, we were together. This chick changed my life. I loved Yasmin more than I loved myself. How I miss my Somali goddess. Still, you can’t have a love story when it’s just one person in love. I love Yasmin, but I doubt that she loves me. If Yasmin did love me, she wouldn’t have done what she did. Twenty four hours ago, my world was shattered into a trillion pieces. We were hanging out at the Saint Laurent Mall, and were about to have supper together at our favorite Chinese restaurant,. Rational? Not very. Practical? Not in the slightest.But they leapt at the offer to take possession of the NATO rounds. Free publicity for their nascent organization. Probably just local coverage, but that was better than nothing. And, if they could, they’d destroy every cartridge rather than let it ‘contribute to the unending cycle of violence ravaging our cities’.Emile played their National Director like a ... well, violin. Mamie Travers would have been an anti-Vietnam protester had she been.