You know the port of Georgetown?" No, boy," the auction manager said, "but you kin stay an' learn; bid if y'like. This part's hard money only."Many ey...s passed over me, and I returned several knowing smiles."Bring on out the fust one," the man cried, and two burly fellows produced a slim girl, holding her by wrist and upper arm, they all but carried her to the front of the stage. She was wearing a two-foot wide piece of coarse cloth with a slit cut in the middle for her tousled head to poke. Deborah gave him one of her room-lighting smiles, full of happiness and warmth. That was enough. Bill enfolded her in a hug. "I've got a new mum," he whispered in her ear. "Thank you."Deborah and Sue kissed warmly as Bill turned to Annette. A good-looking, fair headed man in his late twenties was terrifying and she was looking at the floor and trembling. Bill gently took her hands and crouched in front of her."Hello, little sister," he said softly. Her eyes flicked up briefly. "Meet my Sue.". She was grunting savagely as he banged her. I stood there watching the woman, who I had never before doubted, betraying me. I knew the man, met him. He was her boss at the dealership, Dutch Miller. He was married with kids too.Well, what they were doing explained the decline in my sex life.Their backs were to me, and they hadn't heard me, not yet. "Mable?" I managed. God I must have sounded like the worst kind of wimp.The man's head whipped around. To say he was startled was a total. "The important thing is, now when I get an itch in that place I can't reach? I can reach!!"We were all still too stunned and impressed to remember to laugh. Instead, titan got, in triplicate,"Wow!"As soon as we got back home, I ran up and checked on Rose. She was doing fine, but I let her hop onto my shoulder and then sent out a thought to Andy. He was with the rest of the kids in our usual spot.We had, Andy and the rest of us 'Legion Kids', appropriated a spot as our special place that we.