”“And you always say what you’re thinking?”I chuckled, “Not always, but probably a bit too often. But it’s with friends and family, not in...public. There I tend to be a bit more circumspect.”“Like during the flight?”“That was just me being careful to keep my comments appropriate so I didn’t offend you. I didn’t know you well enough to know what I could, or couldn’t, say.”“But some things are obvious!”“Such as?”“Your desire to be with me.”“The feeling was obviously mutual,” I replied.“Are you. I began chewing on mythumbnail.Aunt Joan slowly moved my hand away from my face with one hand andlifted my chin with the other. Her eyes sparkled in the morning sunlightcoming through the bedroom window. The sadness in her smile almost mademe forget the pain and confusion I was feeling. "I realize this is hard,Bobby. If you don't want to say anything, it's okay. If there ISanything you want to say, and I mean anything, I promise it'll be allright to tell me."I tried to swallow my nervousness,. You will no longer be known as Adam inside this house, your new name is three, or number three do you understand?" No I have a name, I am not a number.” I will not let her take my identity away from me, who does she think she is? She can’t be serious“Good I didn’t want this to be too easy” I say as I stand up and walk over to the table against the wall “now this” I say picking up a packet of tablets that’s laying there “is a little thing called Amphetamine, do you know what it does?”"No! I. ." Bert was one of those that seem to work their way in and out of bars with women drooling over them. Looked damned good in jeans. Could dance. Liked to dance. Blue eyes. Brown hair. Looked so damned good with a day's worth of stubble."I stared straight ahead, driving."He couldn't hold a job. Or a conversation. I thought I could fix that. We broke up EIGHT times, Chuck! EIGHT freakin' times! What's the saying? 'Doing the same thing time after time expecting different results?" Albert Einstein,.