" You hear what you believe are three women filtering slowly into my office. They chatter about the cold weather and laugh to themselves as they sit a... the round table at the far end of my office. "Please close the door Susan" I say. You hear the clicking of heels walking Past the front of my desk and can see the bottom outline of her shiny black heels making their way a mere inches from you under my desk. If it were not for the large wood privacy partition, Susan would surely see you crouched. "I said," the nurse answered, "your uncle must really care about you. He slept on the hall floor till a little while ago. He never said anything to us or complained. He got right up when the orderly woke him, as if he did it every day." Yes," Amber answered quietly, "Uncle Jim is very special." She, herself, was just beginning to realize just how special he was. She needed to pay attention though, as the nurse was speaking to her again."You have an appointment with the psychologist at 0830 hrs.. That way, he would have plenty of time to establish an alibi. The first thing that occurred to him was white phosphorus submerged in gasoline. White phosphorus would flame up as soon as it came into contact with the air, so it would be completely safe as long as it was submerged in gasoline. However, if the gasoline were allowed to evaporate, the white phosphorus would eventually ignite, and that would set off the residual gasoline.There were two variables: the depth of the gasoline over the. .. you've been so good about the deviceand I know its hard for you but... I'm really proud of you. You're myhero."I didn't know how to respond to that -- I sure as hell didn't feel likeone -- so I just squeezed him as tight as I could.And so we dance. And we danced and we danced and we danced. And wedanced slow and we danced fast and we danced sexy and we danced like wewere the only two people in the world that mattered, because we were.I wish I'd been smarter. I wish I'd been more careful. I.