I didn't see Anna wander up and the first thing I new about her presencewas when she slipped her hand into mine. We just watched in silence asthe Dona...d's life was packed into a lorry. We'd known Erika for justover a year. In that time she had much to adjust to. We might speak thesame language but there was a lot for her to adjust to.My thoughts however weren't on Erika. They were on Anna's impendingmove. We'd known each other for most of our lives and now she would begone. Watching Erika move. After I graduated, I moved to Omaha. I got a job in the business office at a local building supply store. It was not quite a year before Helen moved to town as well, having changed her major so many times that she actually graduated after me. She was bright, and managed to get a job at the same place, but in the commercial sales division. It was fun to see her now and again. We’d often get together for dinner or movies or drinks, two small-town kids making their way in the big city. Both the. ” “Sorry if I startled you” , she said as she came closer. “I told your Mom that I had a great day hanging out by the pool. If she didn’t mind while she was gone I would go back down to the pool and lay in a chair.” “She told me to go ahead and that you would not mind keeping me company while she took your sister. “She said she would be about an hour dropping off your sister since the women at your sister’s friend’s house would talk her ear off.” I said, “yeah, that’s Ms. Kelly, she likes to. Some of the girls are getting prune skin from waiting so long under the showers and we are in danger of running out of hot water if we don’t hurry.”What? Waiting? That damned mental freeway I had tapped into was a lot more effective than I had dreamed.“Just how many women know about my visit?”“Why, all of them, of course.”“All the women in the school?”“No. All women, everywhere. You didn’t imagine that anything you did was unknown to us, did you?”“Uh. Give me a minute, here. You know about.