Terry took the sauce he made ofbutter, cream of chicken soup, mayonnaise, lemon juice and curry powderand spread it over the top. He finished up by s...rinkling cheese over theentire casserole, then covered it in aluminum foil and put it in the ovento bake. It was 5:30 and he knew it would be ready before his sister andfriends got home.Terry had about a half-hour before his mom got home. He found a coupleof bottles of Chardonnay in their basement opened them both, so theycould breathe. Terry. ..” and then felt the oxygen pushed from my lungs as Tony punched me in the stomach. I doubled over and he pushed me onto the couch as I gasped for breath. Gino walked behind the couch and grabbed my hair and pulled my head back while the other hood grabbed my arm and twisted. The hood pulled my robe down around my elbows and it fell open revealing my nakedness underneath.“Don’t you ever embarrass me like that again,” growled Tony. And he slapped me, making my face sting and my eyes water.“What. That will give you more time to take care of your personal matters when you do need to return to the Multiverse.”“I’m aware of that, Maribel. However, my network will also increase the workload my Embassy will have to handle. The tasking the other departments place on your department for information about Earth will get to me faster and we will have to turn those requests around quicker.”“Yes, that’s true, Doug, but it will allow you to even out your Embassy’s workload. You won’t get all of the. You love and ache for them much too much to just sit around and accept that this is the end. It couldn't be. There had to be another way. Think! I needed to come up with a plan. All right what options did I have? Only one I could think of; I had to find a way back to 1980.Okay, now that you have a plan, implement. Right.The first thing I needed to do was collect as much information as possible. In the morning I'd rent a car and then drive over to my ex-wife's house and find out whatever I could.