"Will everyone be quiet," Manny said. Looking over at Silvia, he said, "Ma'am, would you like to get a real nurse who might be able to identify these ...wo?" I'm the only nurse on duty," Mary said."I don't believe that," Silvia said.This was a large hospital; there should be nurses everywhere. She became even more suspicious of Mary. She glanced at the security person from the hospital wondering if his cooperation had been bought by party or parties unknown.The security man said, "I bet that Meg. I turned and looked at myself in the mirror. I was mesmerised as Iwatched as my hair grew longer down my head until it reached shoulderlength. Then as if unseen hands were arranging my hair it was pulledback into a ponytail.The effect of my hair being pulled back seemed to make me smileautomatically as candy pink lipstick appeared on my lips and falseeyelashes appeared on my eyelids, then mascara and eyeshadow.Then gold hoop earrings appeared in both ears.There was no getting away from the. ”“Our daughter is in a group marriage,” she asides to Carl and Sonia and Megan and me. “She has her legal husband Gary, and two other couples each married to one another. So it’s a primary spouse and four secondary spouses, more or less. It’s been four years now, and they haven’t blown up yet. I’m keeping my fingers crossed.”The re-acquaintance continues for another half hour, then begins to wind down. “That was a huge mistake, letting ourselves lose touch with you,” Joe shrugs. “We won’t. Chalk and cheese. Brian was a only a few years younger than her Dad. But while her Dad stayed young and contemporary, Brian seemed to age both mentally and physically from the fun man she had fallen for, and at great speed once he had his required ‘wife’. As Brian got ‘older’ he became a committee member at the Legion Club in town, one of his regular haunts since his youth and leaving the Parachute Regiment. He had kind of wandered into the painting and decorating/jobbing handyman trade and.