Not that I didn’t crave civilisation sometimes and I still travelled from time to time and made regular forays to the Metropolis. It was on one such...that I ran into my neighbours, Malcolm and Chris in a BDSM club. To say I was shocked would be an understatement! They lived about two miles away, on the neighbouring farm and rented some ground from me for their sheep. That and a couple of brief hellos in the local pub was the extent of our relationship at the time, though I was well aware form. "Looks like she's getting back to normal -- that's good!" We sat down and looked at the menus we'd been given. "What's souv, souvl," Souvlaki?" Yeah, I guess, is that how you say it?"I nodded, "It's marinated pork or chicken pieces, wrapped in pita bread, with tzatziki sauce on it." She gave me a blank look. "Tzatziki sauce is yoghurt with real finely chopped cucumber and mint leaves, and a few other seasonings in it. It's really good, too. Told ya this place was kind of a fusion -- southern,. Beyond that, this was expensive. While insurance covered most things, there were unbelievable delays at times, and some stuff simply wasn’t covered. We had moved up in the world quite a way from when I was a little kid, but the fact of the matter was that we were simply a working-class family without much in the way of savings. This didn’t help.Therapy proved as bad as I had feared, at least for my right leg. Imagine being stretched on a rack, broken up by intervals of torture, and you have the. But, Ed would gladly suffer those spankings again to get to this point. As it turns out, it was a good thing he felt that way. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ With Ed’s company on the cusp of filing its Initial Public Offering (“IPO”), the investment advisors highly suggested back ground checks on all the significant officers of the company. Ed, of course, was now considered a “significant officer” and was subject to a very thorough back ground check. He didn’t consider his brief dalliance with film making to be.