She would be jogging down the side of the road as I drove by. I saw her many a mornings as I went to get breakfast at the Arches, or the King. It was ...ften a surprise to me how far she would make it in the time I was sitting in the drive through. Anyway, I decided to get off my growing butt and put shoe to road one day. That I managed to do it again on the second day is a tribute to painkillers not to my persistence. I did notice that after I got up and moved, I stopped hurting. Till I stopped.. I'd driven past the place many times, and I'd always been intrigued by it, and I wanted to go inside and see for myself what it was like; but I'd always driven on past each time I'd initially thought I'd go in---except finally, on a very hot and humid summer day in 1981, I pulled into the dusty gravel parking lot and, with my heart pounding in my chest and neck, I walked in through the front door!The first thing that I noticed about the place was the heavy aroma of cigarette smoke. The place. Maybe so, but that quarter included the part of American history I really know about. I can’t be sure enough about my History grade to omit trying for an A in English, too. You’re the English expert. What should I do?”“Well, I’m not going to compare our grades, expert or not, but what got me through the pledge period with a B was that I’d read the literature stories early on. When I read them for assignments...” She wasn’t about to tell him how often she’d not read the assignments immediately. “But there are two immediately outside your structure – about a hundred feet out – and the other two are on what looks like a trail going down the side of the hill you’re on. They’re not exactly on the trail, but if they have automatic weapons, you won’t be able to go that way.”“Roger that,” Tanya replied. “But we have that secret weapon that already saved my ass once, today. I’ll see if we can put her to good use clearing our exit route.”“Good luck with that,” Bret chuckled. “We can have a.