This was going to be the first grandchild on either side and everyone was overjoyed. I’m not totally sure what happened, but at eight weeks Heather ...ost the baby. The doctor said it sometimes just happens, but it wasn’t supposed to happen to us, to someone else, but not to us. Heather took it pretty hard. We’d already painted the second bedroom and started buying baby things to furnish the room. We were told that we were young and fertile. The next time we’d have to watch her health a lot. "You said I could come. Is it still all right?" she whispered.Mark nodded and held open the bedclothes. Selena beamed and softly closed the door behind her. She ran to Mark's bedside slipping off her dressing gown as she did so and revealing a very short and diaphanous nighty. She slipped into bed beside Mark and hugged him."Thank you," she murmured and proceeded to kiss him passionately, her lips mashing his and her tongue probing.Mark pulled back. "Steady, sweetheart," he said. "Too. He told me he will wear an elephant pattern shirt I bought for him, and I told him that I will wear the hearts pattern shirt with an angel-shaped broach he bought.I reached the coffee shop and saw Uncle sitting in his elephant pattern shirt (Silly, I know, but that’s the point). I decided to have some fun.I put on a jacket covering my shirt and walked up to him.“Uncle,” I said with surprise, “What are you doing here?”“I-Indu, what are you doing here?” he asked back, looking embarrassed and. Are you up to taking a turn, High Chief?”John gladly accepted the challenge, and so Feelia relinquished the task, saying, “The wooden poles for holding it are fine for a while, then your hands get sore with rubbing against the wood. Can we not get the carrying poles with protective material on top? Something like hide patches, or some of our twine wound round the handle area? It should be enough to get a real grip, but without the slipperiness of bare wood. Brando smoothed the handles,.