Maybe there is no way that your Mother and Father will ever get back together, but I would like it if even only for you two, they could be friends.’...Don I had been working out in the basement of my apartment building when my cell phone rang. I saw that it was from Richard and wondered what he wanted. I always chatted with him when I saw him, but I wasn’t on a regular phone call basis. If the truth were to be told, I was a bit jealous of him for the fact that he had been married to Maria and had. Not sure I understood what David said, his dad asked if I knew what a nudist was. I told him that nudists are people who go around naked, but I had never seen them do that. His dad started to explain that they enjoy the freedom of being free of clothes, like what I said about skinny dipping, but in our society they had to wear clothes around others. I guess I still just sat there like a deer in the headlights and said nothing. David’s mom asked if knowing that bothered me and I said no it. "You sure that wasn't your world?" Robin asked Paul."We've got paintball games, but nothing on a stadium scale." Paul saidas they appeared in a locker room. "Now where are we?" Don't know," said Anne as she turned herself and Robin back to humanform before opening the lockers at pulling out a white sailor top andblue skirt school uniform. "I found us some clothes so we can blend inwhile we look around." Can't we just be guys on one of these worlds," asked Robin."How would you explain being in. For the pose and demeanor,the wide open eyes and slightly parted lips reminded him so very much ofhis Merendel. She too had listened with her entire being, waitingthrough pauses such as this with recognition that continuation wouldsoon occur and never interrupting until the end. It reminded him of hisloss, though he hoped that it also promised something that may be good.And so he offered his first true smile to his child, which whenhesitantly returned grew larger and launched him into the next.