The biker jumps off his Harley, runs to the cage and hits the lion square on the nose with a powerful punch.Whimpering from the pain the lion jumps ba...k letting go of the girl, and the biker brings the girl to her terrified parents, who thank him endlessly. A reporter has watched the whole event.The reporter addressing the Harley rider says, ‘Sir, this was the most gallant and bravest thing I’ve seen a man do in my whole life.’ The Harley rider replies, ‘Why, it was nothing, really. The lion. Carol said that she did,too. I must have been getting out of shape, I thought to myselfone morning. Somehow my body seemed to be getting softer, not asmuscular as I had been. "I'd better start working out," I saidto myself, then discarding the idea, because between work andthe counseling sessions, there was certainly no time to go to agym. But I made up my mind that I would start after the month ofcounseling, because I didn't like the way my pecs seemed to begetting flabby.It was the Friday. "Till they ask me to leave," I replied. "Mostly it works out fine as at least I was there to help with things after Kevin's death." A thinly aimed barb at Kieran who had told Paula at the funeral to pull herself together and had then suggested putting Kerry and Martin into care till she got over herself.That remark had gotten him a dressing down by a furious Meg and he had vanished out of everyone's radar for a good long while.His lips thinned but he at least had the sense not to pursue the. Over the years, Ihave gotten James used to coming down to the salon during shop hoursfor a hair trim, sometimes even getting him to accept a manicure andpedicure under the guise of new employee training, sometimeshighlighting his hair, so this was nothing new. I hadn't botheredJames about his hair for several months, so it had gotten to almostshoulder length. I told him to come down to the shop at closing time,so that we could go out afterwards for dinner and a movie.At the chosen time James.