Giardi feels like I need it." And once Nancy gets the surgery that she wants and needs," my mothersaid, "She's going to need a support group to help h...r deal with all thechanges. That's why I asked you both to come over. I thought it wouldhelp Nancy to have friends while she's going through this."Both Nancy and Susan assured my mother and me that they would be myfriends."Do you really need to go to Mexico to get the surgery? Can't you do ithere?" Susan asked."She could, but it would take at. (We were looking for a vehicle here.) I set the recorder to trigger an alarm if it got a set of images. I took plenty of pictures before we set aside the corpses under a cover next to the second barn. Then we settled back to wait. I mounted my rifle and 'possibles bag' on a wooden gun rack just over the kitchen door to the garage. Next to it I hung my hunting clothes and set the big seaman's boots below.A couple weeks passed. We'd gotten about six inches of inches of snow. Mark and I had begun. I noticed that Ihad cut my arm a bit on the landing and was bleeding.I eventually got up and got back home. When I got inside I wasconfronted by Robin."What took you so long? What happened to you?" she asked, gesturing tothe cut and the leaves in my hair and stuff."Nothing..." I lied and ran past her to my room. I locked the door,threw down my backpack and jumped onto my bed, burying my head in mypillow.I didn't cry this time, I wouldn't allow myself. I had done that enoughduring the rest of. She was now on her back with her eyes closed again. She said, “Everything’s fine now, Cathy. Honest. My real fear has been taken care of by the young man growing in my belly. The doctors didn’t think I had been permanently injured but where it comes to having children they can’t know for sure. Now I feel just great.”Sam just shook his head. “Cath, remember this, will you? Remember who pushed to avoid an invasion of Russia to spare its people. A person who had been viciously tortured day after.