The US and the USSR squared up to each other after World War 2, but they were seen as pretty evenly matched. Thus, for decades there was an uneasy pea...e, but that is what it was – peace. No leader on either side wanted to do anything to cause a war to break out, because of MAD – Mutually Assured Destruction – and it stayed that way until the Soviet Union gave up the ghost through an economic collapse. They couldn’t any longer afford to match the USA on weapons technology.”Erika suggested, “So,. " I'll be long gone by then. I might take as little as Seventy two thousand though, for a quick cash sale. You think they could handle that now?" No, but they could handle Fifty four thousand, all cash, with a twenty day escrow just to prove title and to take care of due diligence." You talk good, boy, you must be educated and all. If your parents can come up with sixty thousand, all cash, and handle all the closing costs, they just bought a nice little farm for themselves." We'll go fifty. She told me then to jump up on the table and lay down. I looked at herlike, "No!" She smiled and said I had better get up there or I will bepunished. She came over to me and whispered in my ear, "You are sobeautiful. Now get on the table!" I jumped right up on the table.She strapped me to a table, I could not move. She even kept saying to me,"You are so beautiful."I knew I was done, all strapped into the table.In walked my wife and another nurse. Cathy smiled and said, "Tom, thiswill finish the. Courtney and I pulled up a chair with them. Charles explained, "We brought the donuts and the coffee for after the treadmill run. We will need nourishment after that." I just laughed. We were going to use all four Marathoners. The last two runners were going to be joined by Courtney and me. Courtney and I had run quite a few times against each other for the best times ever since she had worked herself into a good fitness form. We always finished the mile run within seconds of each other. Today.