..” Tanya sobbed against his chest.Frank held her tightly, not speaking. ‘Everything I say makes it worse, ‘ he realized. ‘All I can do is giv... her my support.’“That’s all she wants, Frank,” Jake, Béla’s husband, said. ‘Your support – your love – That’s all she’s ever wanted from you, and you’ve always provided it.’ The words sounded in his mind, but not in his ears.‘Are we mind-linked now?’ Frank asked, not knowing if he should be annoyed. ‘I can hear your thoughts. Why can’t I hear. As he rounded a corner she hurried out of the pool and headed for the changing rooms.Her plan once inside the changing rooms was to take off her suit, shower, dry off and then go to her room for the night. She had just stripped and turned on the shower when she heard the changing room door open. She was taken completely by surprise just stood there and continued to shower. She faced the shower wall and saw out of the corner of her eye that it was the stranger. She acted as if nothing had. My mother said, “Suzie, are you two going to wear matching suits at the pool this spring?”I don’t believe Larry had heard that story yet. He said, “I have a pair of dark blue trunks that wouldn’t be hard to match, Suzie-Q.”My sister cringed. My mother pounced. She said, “Suzie, I will go with you to pick one for each of you.”Suzie-Q smiled. “That won’t be necessary, Mom. I can ‘handle’ that chore without any help.”Karen’s mom said, “We ought to go to make sure Suzie understands all the details. I became responsible for everything that needed to be done, and was rewarded with harsh words, power struggles, and constant disappointment. Here in Russell Creek, hundreds of miles away from my real life, the life that was currently on hold for a few days, I felt distant from everything. Distant from the people who populated my past, as their lives had taken many different paths and had turned them into people I barely recognized. Distant from the people who populated my present, as they were.