Still, Annie gave it a murderous look as the compressor coughed and died.It hadn't been able to keep up for a while, really. As a result, the apartmen... that Annie shared with her husband, Phillip, was already too warm to be truly comfortable. Now that the A/C had died, the temperature was sure to skyrocket. Phillip sat in an armchair on the other side of the living room, occasionally glaring at Annie over the top of his magazine. Tempers had risen today with the temperatures; the oppressive. " I didn't listen to much more than that.This kind of thing didn't happen often, obviously, and it was going to cost me a lot of money, I was sure. Whoever that guy was, he'd just won the lottery and would step off the plane in New York with a check and a story about some really bad turbulence. Eva and Wolfgang would have to avoid Mr. Goethe for awhile. He hated writing checks."Sit with me," I said quietly to them.Eva sat down to my left and Wolfgang paused, perhaps thinking I was upset, but. "Now we're going to put you under just enough to safely performthe procedure, the hormones are going to put your body through a whole lotin a short time so you're likely going to sleep pretty solidly for the nextfew days while you recover and adjust."She continued, "You''ll have a bit of a baby bump when you wake up, but notenough to be noticeable unless you want it to." I looked at herquizzically, "If you want to wear street clothes home when you're ready,then you can but if you would like to. "She doesn't go anywhere." Anything change in Sara's life?" She's the same sister."By early March, the snow was quickly melting. We were now very serious during practice. The weather always got one last dusting of powder that would cancel a couple of practices but beyond that we hit the links hard.I had no reservations when Coach Sanders finally got to see Crystal's and Miranda's progress on the course. Crystal was as average as any of the girls on any other high school team. Miranda was my.