I’ll be talking to him in a few minutes…believe me! I waited a bit, Betty continued…they said they weren’t going to do anything, they just wan...ed a “show”. So I figured why not, and started out of the water. But that was when they pulled out their phones and got pictures. I was so startled, I guess incredulous….I didn’t know whether to go back, go forward, what to do! So I just walked up and started putting my clothes on. I tried to ignore them and walked off, but that Thomas boy – you know. The love and support that the readers, in general, have given me have been amazing. I thank all of you.I don’t want to give this illness one bit of credit for anything but it’s destructiveness in my life. I have learned there are levels of pain that I never knew or even dreamed existed. I learned how a disability changes the way people perceive you. I know what it is to be pushed past the point of giving up. A place where you pray to die and mean it. I have been humbled and humiliated. It’s. Denny had a bit more time on his hands with "Washton" in dock — but only a bit as his wife, 'Mina, exercised her prerogative and made the most of her opportunity. Some of Denny's time was taken in oversight of "Gorgon" as McCock had appointed him captain of her.Approaches to TJ and Morg to accept senior appointments in the "new" 119 were declined. TJ eventually shamelessly used the offers as a lever to get their discharges by pointing out that McCock's personnel did not want to be constantly. .. nice,” she added, stuck for words.John laughed and Alyssa giggled too. “Thanks, I appreciate the vote of confidence,” he said, the mood lightening a little.“But I don’t understand, what has any of that got anything to do with the transformations the girls supposedly underwent?” Rachel asked in confusion.“It was John that triggered the changes in all of us,” Alyssa said. “We changed after...” she paused and glanced at him lovingly, while Rachel waited on tenterhooks.“After what?!” Rachel.