The ride there was painful though, physically and mentally, and the three of them radiated depression with every long second.Jack sat in the middle of...the wide car, Damien and Jessy each taking a window. They all looked like they’d been through a war, and Damien’s bandages only added to the painful image.“How’s your skull?” Jessy said.“Throbs.” Throbbing was weird. He didn’t expect throbbing, since that was a function of blood being pumped through the body, irritated and swollen. The touch of. I have currently identified four items of high volume, high value merchandise, and anticipate that we will be able to move twenty tons of merchandise per year without significantly depressing the market. I anticipate identifying additional types of high value merchandise, which should increase our annual profit in these products to over a Billion dollars per year.“There will also be an even wider variety of moderately valuable merchandise to be sold. Our profit per ton will be less, but we. I don't know if you want to return to the farm first or just come straight home to San Diego." I don't think we should return to the farm. It would be favoring my parents over yours and I don't want to do that. It's bad enough we're having our marriage on the farm with a friend of my family doing the ceremony. I don't want to slight your mom. Neither your dad nor mine will notice, much less care but it's the kind of thing moms do notice and care about." It's normally the bride's choice and I. I carefully lifted the woman up and laid her on the bed. “Do you have a given name I could use?” I asked.“You can call me Lauralla. It was my birth name and I haven’t used it for a good many stellar cycles, but under the circumstances it seems appropriate,” she replied with a slight smile.“Friends get to call me Dave.”“Thank you, Dave. Now be gentle please, I’m a bit fragile at the minute.”“Your wish is my command,” I replied and kissed her softly to start the process.Age is no barrier to my.