" "David!" yelled Karen, "I'm home!" He walked out of the bathroom and kissed his wife on the cheek. "Tomorrow I'm gonna be gone. I'm just going to ha...g around the hospital, while she's getting surgery," explained Karen. Melissa came out of her room, smiling. "Is grandma okay?" asked Melissa. "She'll be fine..." sighed Karen. "It sucks how you'll be gone all day tomorrow," smirked Melissa, looking at David. "Yeah... but she's my mom," said Karen, walking to her room. Melissa began walking. "I wish you would know what this cramping was like" she sobbed. Alan suddenly had a pain in his stomach, followed by a sudden irritation in his bladder. "You don't know the first thing about being a girl. I wish you had the chance to have cramps every month. I wish you would know what its like to have to worry about your hair every morning." With this, Alan had another pain in his stomach, this time more severe. He felt as if his entire insides were shifting. He also felt a pull on his. .. Georgia. Just how far out of the way was I willing to put up with?According to one passport, I was Commonwealth ... the other was US. Dual citizenship ... born in the USA ... hadn’t been in the continental United States in 12 years.And suddenly ... I needed... “Umh ... I need a bathroom ... right now ... oh, heck ... too late,” The circular file at the desk received my breakfast ... and lunch, Visa was appalled.“Newly going to be mom,” I said. “First strike,” and added more to the brown bin.. “I didn’t mean that,” he muttered. “If I had never summoned Orobas then I never would have met you. I just ... figured I’d live a lot longer than this.”“Then the choice has been made for you.”He looked up at her, drying his eyes with the back of his sleeve.“What do you mean?”“If you believe that your death is inevitable then you are free to act. Failure has the same outcome as doing nothing, and so there is no reason not to try. You cannot just live in the grove for the rest of your days, the.