Whatever challenges we faced, the next day would provide a fresh chance to look at things anew. An opportunity to fix problems, to take advantage of o...portunities, to know love and loss and emotions so weighty you felt the Earth shift under your feet.One more moment where you could change the world.On the afternoon of June 21, 2021, all across the Earth, television and radio stations yielded control to emergency broadcast networks. Presidents and queens and Prime Ministers gave rushed press. It’s been fueled over the last forty hours by the knowledge that we will never speak again. That all of our dreams are now doomed to remain unfulfilled. I’ve cried knowing that I will never kiss you or touch your skin. I can never hold you in my arms or play with your hair. You can’t take me dancing or teach me guitar. I’ll never be able to kiss you at the top of the Ferris wheel. Our children will never meet, or families will be strangers. There will never be a chance to watch your hair grow. My hand picked up the red blade and I walked over toMr. Reilly, "Now tell me once more that you think I was not honoring myoath and I would have not stood up to die to protect Nikki from thispain with my very life...EVEN though I hated Aunghadhail with everybreath I took" I am not sure, you might have?" he said reluctantly and not very sureof what I was doing with such a wicked blade in my hand.I grab his right hand, then quickly place the handle of the blade with apiece of silk covering it and. But why did she want to be alone. The answer pulled into the drive even as my mind formed the question. Getting out of the car was a stocky Mexican who I recognized as being a member of Frank's company softball team, and surprise, surprise, pulling in right behind him was Sylvia's husband Frank. Laughing and high-fiveing the two men walked into the house together. As soon as the door closed behind them I was out of the car and across the street and moving down the side of the house looking for.