...and over....is he ou........"And I was out.--The procedure took a long time, and required two teams of surgeons. Idon't know how Steve did it, but...I paid him a lot of money to makeeverything perfect and think of every scenario.I started to wake, everything was a haze. My vision was burly, andsounds were muffled. I was lying down. The light was intense. I feltvery weak. It was hard to even open my eyes."Lower the....better...eyes.....Jerem..."The light intensity decreased."Huh?". “Pretty shitty,” I said. “Things haven’t been goin’ to well for me lately either.” We were talking to each other like we didn’t know who each was anymore. “Where did you go?” I asked suddenly.Chris looked away from me. “I had to go...” he said.“Where?”“I just got in my truck that night after I came over here and just drove to wherever I could go to,” Chris said. “I had to get away from here for a while.”“Away from me,” I said bitterly.“Not just you, B. A lot of shit. `Sides, I didn’t really. For the record, having defeated Hitler, we occupied Germany, sort of. Actually, the victorious Allies split Germany into four parts: The British got the West, the French got the highly industrialized Ruhr Valley, The Russians got the East and the US got the South, principally Bavaria. Goals for the occupation were varied: those who had been conquered by the Nazis wanted an impotent agrarian Germany; the United States wanted a neutral self-governing democratic version of the dynamic. Life was how Tammy always wanted it. At least until it was time for Christmas dinner. Tammy was enjoying the ham, potatoes, peas and egg nod when she just doubled over in pain. An abdominal cramping which soon subsided. She would soon be serving up a cup of blood to her first period and learning how to use her first tampon. She just didn't think she'd be getting to them so soon."Look at the bright side." Mrs. McGee said as she helped clean her daughter up, get a new pair of panties and showed.