.. that I was setting her up.The home phone rang four times and went to voicemail. This was strange; Sybil was supposed to be home by this time of the...afternoon. Maybe she was simply in the bathroom. I called again five minutes later and got the same result. I waited ten more minutes and then I left a message telling her that I would be home at about 6:15 and told her about the call from Deputy Gibson and my lack of knowledge about anything concerning the pending visit.As I hung up, I grinned. Ah have power now. Ah feel like Ah took control of mahself and mah life, for once." Darlene paused, letting her declaration hang in the late summer air. When she was sure they had heard her she smiled. "An' Ah got a very good tumble out of it, to boot—two, actually."Gloria stood and put her arm around Darlene. "Bravo, girl. Now, you're truly one of us—in every way." I didn't know that Jim could do two in one night," Brenda pointed out. "He's a little old for that, but he is very good."Darlene. Leeanna could tell how much it was tearing himup but she eventually said the right things, trying to make it easieron me.GOD, this whole thing just SUCKED!I've never had a week go by so quickly. There were meetings and plansand goodbyes and more meetings and more goodbyes. By the last day, Iwas a jittery, edgy, emotional wreck.Dierdra had tried to spend as much free time as she could with me butthe business of government was taking more and more of that time. If Ihadn't been so damn needy, I'd. Fred said it didn’t make any difference. The memories were there in his mind; his brain couldn’t make the right connections anymore, but that he might be able to help him remember better.I went and helped Fretonto into the office and Fred scanned him and I saw a flash of light by the old man’s head. Then his speech was less slurred and his eyes were much brighter. He still talked nonsense for a couple minutes and then stopped speaking altogether. He looked at me and said, “I know you, you are.