Thereafter, Claire sat with her mother all the time, while Peter and the children brought her coffee and tea and food from time to time. Her mother se...med to be sinking deeper into a coma.At about five Mary opened her eyes saw Claire and whispered, “John.”Her eyes closed again and Claire called the family. Claire and Elizabeth held her hands. Once more she opened her eyes and smiled at her family, then closed them for the last time.Ellen and George arrived with their families. They all knelt or. I want to learn what it means to be an Apache. I want to see first hand the prejudice, the poverty, and the hopelessness. You said that your blood in my body makes me an Apache. If that’s true, I want to learn from you the history and ways of ‘my’ people. I want to fully become an Apache. Then, as a group, we’ll attack the problems we’ve identified.”“Hawk, you honor me and my people. Our problems are many, and have been building for more than a century. Do you think you, or a small group, can. ‘Perhaps a demonstration might say more than I could vocalise,’ Garry said. He took his workpad’s pointer and aimed it at the big screen beside them. Chairs moved as people arranged themselves to view the vid. Thelma caught Martha’s amused glance and the pair grinned at each other as scenes of light and heavy bondage, pole dancing, strippers, rough and ready sex accompanied by verbal abuse and some torture displayed upon the screen. ‘Note,’ said Garry as he paused the display representing a. I smile despite the pain and begin adjusting my equations. Harmonic overlay, he said… I muse on this point for a minute that seems to stretch forever. My body grows still, and my mind expands to let seventy-six different equation sets play through my head. E = mc^2? I sniff, simplicity isn’t everything. In fact, simplicity is nothing but symbolism for more complicated concepts. What is e? What is m? What is c? What is squared? if you do not know these, if the world had not ground the concepts.