All that my father had ever done or thought would pass in front of him. While he watched this procession of thoughts and deeds, he would feel like he ...ad a body, but soon he would realize that he didn't and would long to possess one again. This realization started the Third Bardo, which is the state of seeking another birth. All previous thoughts and actions would direct my father to choose new parents who would give him his next body.I was living proof that reincarnation was real. The concept. Found a newer model. Younger, more exciting. More likely to go places. I ... you know, it didn't even really hurt that much? I could even understand where he was coming from. I'd been there. What really hurt? What really destroyed me? It was understanding what I'd done to Joe all those years ago. The realization. It just ... pierced me, in my heart."I knew something was missing from my marriage to Peter, but I never really thought about what it was. It was Joe. He loved me for who he thought I. “So, we’re going to get fussed at for looking,” Morales grumped, thinking his wives would be expecting him to sneak a peek at the Matthews women if he got the chance.“Look,” Diana said, already halfway to becoming exasperated. “There are several families at the Retreat, and we’re all close friends. All of us women go braless unless we have company. A man at the Retreat can look at any woman there — with discretion — but he can’t touch anyone in a sexual manner unless that woman belongs to him.. I held my hardly moveable thumb up and the hatch was closed. Darkness was all around and I started to feel the metal walls and tried to find out by myself what this strange machine was made for.“Now seriously, May, what is this thing for?” Mum asked outside. “Be patient I’ll show you now.” With that May got on the small stair and took place on the round bench. “Come up, dear” she said and mum followed. She took the next of four seats to May. Then May opened some other but much smaller hatch. It.