That Saturday we talked excitedly about our forthcoming holiday, making promises of loving that in all probability our bodies could not keep. Later we...did the mundane things, shopping, buying food for the evening and the Sunday, as we had decided that Eve would stay over until the Monday morning. On Sunday we got up late, luxuriating in laying in bed, holding each other and talking. It was the first time that Eve had ever done that, and she insisted that this should be a ritual she wanted to. "Nah; it just seems like they do," said Jennifer. "They're both second generation Italian, so it makes them very passionate about everything. Or, that's what my mother says all the time. It's like that ice cream commercial with the couple fighting almost through the whole commercial. The only time they stop is when they eat the ice cream. Then they're all lovey-dovey, until they start fighting again. My parents are the same way, except they don't talk a whole lot when they make up; they make. Me, well, Brady rescued me up in the wilds of Montana. He helped me make it through the winter and then asked me to marry him. He was a trapper and kept me alive for six months before I saw another soul. I think I loved him from the first day we met, but I had issues so it took a while.I took over. “The first time I saw Berta, she had just killed a man, but then she was in real trouble. Alone in wild country with the winter coming on, we threw in together and had a good season trapping. We came. But you did and in the end they listened. I don't have that sort of courage and you do. Please don't let us down! If the others don't matter to you, then please don't let ME down!" I let you down by running away, didn't I? And I'd most likely try again if they took their eyes off me long enough. And why are you standing apart from me and pretending not to be talking?" If you had made it home, this place would have been exposed to the gaze of the whole world. Even our government would have been.