The elementary school was letting out when she finally dried up her eyes and asked if we could go back to her house. Paula wanted to show me how good ...aula could take care of me now that we are older. Well, she planned to take care of me. We made it to the couch just inside the front door before she fell asleep when trying to take off her shoe.I had to hold her sitting on the toilet and make her muscles relax to pee because she was sleeping so deeply. I got her changed into a larger version of. I guess it was one of those that put me in that cab." You know," Karen commiserated. "isn't it funny how easily you can come to except all this super natural mumbo jumbo stuff after it's touched you." The remarkable encounters both women had recently experienced had forged an even stronger bond of friendship between the two of them and Karen felt completely comfortable airing out even her most personal thoughts or dilemmas."I've always held a spiritual conviction about there being a God, but. “It must have happened on the pyramid, Richard.”Suddenly, she was pulled into Richard’s arms and his kisses rained on her lips, her nose and her eyes. Then he held her face a few inches from his own.“Wherever, whenever we started this new life, it will be a wonderful child. Because you will be its mother. I don’t know what I ever did to deserve you.”“Perhaps, if you were to show your appreciation more convincingly?” Ellen suggested, kissing him back.“Can I, I mean with our child growing inside. The overseer would say that Mr. Greene took the missing slaves west to Missouri, intending to sell them to his favorite nephew, although none of them knew exactly where the nephew lived. He wanted to sell them because they were all related and he wanted to bring in new blood for breeding. Mr. Greene and his son had taken half of their money intending to take a steamboat to Natchez to buy more slaves on their way home so he could expand his plantation, something he’d talked about doing for more.