Looked up at the tenant, she looked at me and smiled and with shakey hands I went about the business of fixing the leak under the. Sink. She went abou... her business and left me alone for the most part checking in on me from time to time but when she would leave I just couldn't help but investigate the treasure that was in front of me a pile of two to three nude nylons a teddy and a matching panty. For the most part I held it together and finished the task at hand but it wasn't easy. After I was. There was another groan, but it was longer this time and had an unearthly pleading tone to it as though someone were being tortured. Patty dropped her hand from the door-handle and started to back away. Her mind was a riot of confused emotions. What should she do? Should she call the police? Perhaps some fiend had broken in and was assaulting her mother. Then her mind was made up for her as a pleading voice spoke again."Oh, God! Yessss, yessss, do it to me like that!"It was her mother again,. The officer ushered the eight of us back into the hospital. He could see I needed a minute to myself, and let me slink off around the corner with a sympathetic nod once the rest of my section was inside. The humidity was stifling. Together with the dark mud that sucked at my boots, it fought to slow my retreat. The shirt of my disruptive pattern combat uniform clung to my back, almost hosed on. I despaired. There was no escape. My breathing lumbered, and countless stars joined the moisture. This point in the American Revolutionary War was said to marked by the battle fought at Saratoga being the so-called “turning point” of the war in favor now of the Rebel cause. In my studies of the war from the perspective of the future, I had come to the conclusion that while the battle at Saratoga was an important factor in the ultimate defeat for the British, it was actually the subtle strategy of the French advisors to Washington that shaped the conclusion of the war in his favor. It was.