And the two other men with him were much younger, I'd guess, late twenties. But these two were giants, six foot six at least, and big broad shoulders.... The older man spoke.“I'm sorry to call on you in this state lass, but our car has just been hit by a falling tree. And from down in the valley, the lights of your house were the only thing we could see. Can we use your phone? Or being as were in such a state, could you ring for a breakdown truck for us?”I stepped back into my hallway,“Come on. I think both of us are just sort of ignoring that to avoid complicating things. Why?”“I guess I’m just wondering at which point she becomes your girlfriend, you know, de facto.”“I hadn’t thought of it that way.”“Has she?”“I have NO idea,” I replied, suddenly concerned.“I think you better find out before you wind up in a VERY bad place.”“I think you’re right.”October 18, 1982, McKinley, Ohio“I think we need to talk,” I said to Sandy when she got into bed with me on Monday night.“Uh-oh,” she. The fact that the defendant had been beaten to within an inch of his life was quite irrelevant.Needless to say the entire Federal judicial system went nuts at this. The DA refilled new charges immediately in a new court and the AGotUS nailed the last nail into Judge Moonbat's career, ordering her to appear immediately the following day in her office with a letter of resignation in her hand, else face immediate impeachment and judicial removement.Dana never made it. The full story of the reason. Life is made up of milestones. I rushed the completion of the preliminary designs for the compound for two reasons. Winter would arrive in Santa Fe before we were ready. I wanted the new buildings closed in before the snows fell. And, I wanted the design work done before my first one-man show in Jackson Hole. While I worked on the designs, I selected the architectural firm we'd hire to do the working drawings, and Dad had pointed me at a general contractor that he believed would do a good job.