Louise looked perplexed as she said, “Maybe Irish families have a different way of stuffing their fowl so I’m not quite sure how to wad the bread ...rumbs in.” I told her she needed something a lot stiffer than breadcrumbs to stuff this turkey with. To be more specific, I heard myself say: ”We’re four generations here in Canada now, but in me mother’s kitchen, fresh carrots and celery stalks were used in the stuffin’. At me father-in-law’s delicatessen, kielbasa sausage and peppers were used in. In the elevator up to his apartment we made out like we would never again. Once we got inside his apartment he shut the door and locked it and that’s when shoved me up against the wall and continued giving me the hickey he then slid his hand to my back and unzipped my dress and slid it off he then grabbed my ass and lifted me off the ground. I wrapped my legs around his hips, as he walked me over to the bedroom still working on that hickey he then dropped me on the bed. He then stripped to. “You need a new direction in your life.” “What?” “A new direction. You have just passed a milestone, and now you need new direction.” “why…How..I mean, how did you know….you don’t know me or….”Charlie suddenly stopped talking. She realized she was babbling, and not making any sense, much less speaking in complete sentences. “I know many things,” the little man cryptically said. “I have seen the walrus and I have seen the carpenter, and I helped Alice escape from the red queen.” Charlie almost. We waited silently, and I sipped at the wine, trying not to grimace – I wasn’t a fan of wine in general, and this wine in particular was awful. I wasn’t enough of a connoisseur to know if it had somehow gone off, or if it was just that terrible. I was glad it only cost a few coppers a glass – any more would have been highway robbery.Ena watched me impassively, ignoring her cup altogether. I wondered what we were waiting for; if it’s going to be an ambush, surely it wouldn’t take this long?.