’ ‘I hear they’re very fashionable this year Even.’ ‘Son, just do it. You don’t have to look at them, other people do. You can tell them...that they are the height of fashion in Texas. When you get back home you can burn them.’ ‘He’s keeping those bathing suits if he wants to see Zoie again.’ ‘The dictator of this house has spoken. The men of this household are subservient to her. We bow before her will. Get used to it my boy, one day that will be Zoie talking to you.’ ‘No she won’t. I will. One of the young men speaks up. ‘Hey buddy, this isn’t a nude beach.’ General laughter ensues. ‘Yeah.’ I reply nodding my head. The pretty girl he has by the waist smiles at me. This girl has a soul smile. It’s an open welcoming smile. When I’ve fallen into darkness, a woman with a soul smile can reach in after me and pull me out into the warm light. It’s like she embraces my soul from afar, lifting me. I want to smile back at her, I appreciate her reaching out to me, but I can’t. I think my. When Ted was working on a new project, he'd often get quite pre-occupiedand not want to talk about it until he was ready to show it off. If hecouldn't get something to work, he'd go on with something else andpretend that he had been working on the new one all along. Bob usuallyworked away from home for a few weeeks at a time, but usually ended upgetting home on a Friday and heading out to the next job the followingMonday. Both men had been married but their wives had died together in acar. .. I'm Brian Frost, eighth grade shrimp." He laughed just as the bell rang and we turned to the teacher who started explaining all about how we'd be in lectures on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday and lab on Tuesday and Thursday. Since this was Tuesday, we'd use the opportunity to pick our lab partners and he'd give us a minute to change seats if we needed to. The guy on the other side of Reggie tapped him on the shoulder, but he waved him away."I got a lab partner," he rasped. He looked at me..