.. about fifteen million dollars stayed in Pentwater that winter.Charley took his money and bought a Yamaha snowmobile dealership. He turned his airpo...t into a major racetrack. The black sweet cherry industry bought groomers and the cross country skiers came in droves. Like to icefish? The Cloches built ice shanties to rent. Oh yes, the town really blossomed ... right through the entire winter, the spring and the summer was spectacular. With a ticket bought at the Shell, someone regularly won. I lied there for an hour at least before deciding I better head in before I burn. I put my bikini top back on and headed in. I walked in and upstairs to the bedroom, the door was locked. I knocked“Dad are you in there.”He replied“Yea Paige I’ll be out in a second, why don’t you head downstairs ill meet you down there.” He said in a rushed tone“Ok daddy.” I pressed my ear to the door, sure enough I heard a steady beating sound. He was jacking off.I smiled and headed downstairs. I turned on the. She turned to Bob."Walk me home?" Gladly," he said.They hadn't gone far when she reached for his hand and linked her little finger in his."What if I really am a mail order bride?" she asked.Bob wasn't sure if she was joking or not. He decided not to take the chance."I think Boots had it right. You're just the wrong kind of person to fit in that mold. I wouldn't doubt for a minute that there's a man out there desperate to marry you, but I suspect it's a man of your choosing, someone you know,. He then took us back out and down a couple of corridors to another room with a couple of coffin-looking things. There was another guy there, and he took responsibility for us. Frenchy disappeared again.These were, apparently, autodocs straight from Larry Niven's Known Space stories. We get in and they fix everything wrong. Okay, what's your success rate with these things? How many people have you lost?"They don't screw up. WE may screw up and ask for something we decide later we don't want, but.