“I think you’re all amazing people, and it’s obvious you’ve already achieved great things in such a short space of time. Although I can’t qu...te believe you’ve picked me, I’m still very eager to join you,” she said, and the girls all grinned at her happily.“If you’ve decided you’re definitely staying, then you’re going to need another full tummy to continue the change,” Alyssa said to Rachel gently.Rachel looked up at John coyly, then a confused look crossed her face. “I remember most of what. We are best friends with one of our next door neighbors, Bill and Helen Tindal, and we are all middle-aged with Bill and me being 52 years old, and Margaret and Helen being 50. Our two children are grown and out on their own, but we have stayed in our home since it is already paid off and the taxes are fairly low. Our wives have a card group and get together socially quite often, and Bill and I usually help each other with yard work and we watch sports together, but really don’t have any. Remember the mighty word ‘earmark.’I warned John and the others what was going to happen, and that if we tried to stop the process, we would get nothing but heartache. The best we could accomplish was to control and influence things, and keep the lid on the more ridiculous stuff, by throwing spotlights on them, as necessary. We also had to control our own side, who now that they were in positions of power wanted to get their own blessing of pork.Some of the bills were going to be shitcanned.. Silence. You have not had a room with total silence in a long time. And...now that you are sunken down in y our chair, you grab the remote and start flipping through the channels looking for any and all sports games that are on. "I'm gonna sit my ass here and watch sports all weekend long. All she ever wants to watch are those self help DVDs or stupid talks shows about how to better you life. Fuck that shit. It is sports all weekend!"As you sit there, flipping between 3 different games, the.