" He looked at her, shaking his head as he smiled ironically."What do you mean, expected it?"Tom sighed again. "Things didn't ... feel right," he sa...d simply. "Ican't explain it, but it just didn't feel right."Rachel smiled. "Some would call that woman's intuition." She saw thesudden shocked expression on Tom, and hurried to add, "_I'd_ call itbeing in tune with your body." She smiled. "All of this is new, soyou're a _lot_ more sensitive to changes than, say, a natural girl yourage. You. I also knew he had other motives, which were to create a counterweight to China, which was rapidly growing in influence, and which more directly threatened Russia, because of her natural resources, than the United States, at least in the near term.If our kids were close in skill level to the Russians at ice hockey, football, or as we called it, ‘soccer’, was another matter entirely. Even the seven-year-old Russian kids were more skilled than our eleven-year-olds. That said, the kids had a. “You’re crying!” he said, and suddenly the grin was gone.“It’s good crying,” she sniffled. “Oh, Daddy, I love you so much.”He moved and put his arm under her.“How soon can you go again?” she asked his ear.“Julie, your sister is standing over there masturbating,” he said.“I know. I don’t care.”“I warned you about this,” he groaned.“I know. I don’t care.”“I could have just gotten you pregnant!” he barked. “And don’t tell me you know and don’t care!”“I won’t. So ... how soon?”“What’s happening?”. I was almost finished with the Labrador that I was working on, giving him a flea dip, trimming his coat and cutting his nails. He was a sweetheart of a dog and his patience was amazing. He just let me do as I wished and never gave me any problems. I was talking to him as I worked and I believe he knew what I was saying. That was more than I could claim. As I put him in his holding cage until his master picked him up, I once again looked at the clock and saw that my time was up. I could go home.