He started with "that's too much money to piss away. You worked for months to get that and it could be gone in two minutes". It took me almost an hour...but I finally got him to agree. He finished with "alright I'll do it if you're sure that's what you want. I don't agree with it but I'll do it. I don't want to hear you complain when you lose it though; 16:1 are long odds".I told him if I did lose it I'd just have to start over but I had a good feeling about the horse and thought he'd win by at. Jamie passed thetime reading and re-reading the waiting area magazines. It wasanother hour before Tom reappeared, not looking particularlyreassured.Jamie waited until they were in the car and heading back to the flatbefore speaking. 'Well? What did they say?''They won't know for sure until they've run some tests on the samplesI gave - but they think it's only just started to affect mephysically,' Tom said. 'They kind of implied I'd been lucky - a lotof people have their skin, hair, joints. He couldn’t believe she was being so friendly, or asking him such personal questions. She had never talked to him like this before, and he was starting to wonder why.“Oh Frankie,” she said smiling. “It’s okay. It’s nothing to be ashamed of.”He hung his head for a few moments, then looked up and whispered, “Yeah.”She hugged him, pressing her breasts into him and said, “Oh my dear sweet boy. Whoa! You need a shower!”“Yeah,” he said. “Sorry about that.”“I have an idea, why don’t you take a quick. " Annamarie opened the dresser and began unpacking. After another look outside, Sammi did the same. She glanced at the time, surprised to see that it was mid-afternoon. Now she understood why this was a two-day field trip.A woman knocked on the door. She was carrying several pairs of khaki slacks over her arm. "It gets cold and muddy out there," she said, "and the wind is nobody's friend. We wear these when we're here." What about boots?" Sammi asked as the woman measured her inseam. "I brought.