I also got a short letter from Jake, getting ready to leave for the University of Iowa. He wrote that he was thinking of walking on and trying out for...the football team, but he had his doubts about if he would make it. If nothing else, he wrote, he would sign up for intramural football. As much as he loved football, I knew Jake had other plans. His primary goal was to go to pharmacy school so he could work at his father's drug store, and make a good life for himself and Jaimie.Another surprise. I'd put it into silent mode when I got here just in case they called me.I fished it out, "Hello." Tom," said Helen's voice, "Rosa is about to begin." I know," I said, "tell her she looks beautiful for me will you and that I'm really looking forward to this performance." I will," said Helen and across the way she lowered her arm. She spoke to Rosa who smiled and then blew a kiss towards the centre of the pitch, presumably for her watching audience.I gripped the camera and waited for Rosa to. We came out with our items. We loaded the RV, stopped to top off the tank while there was power, and pulled out onto the Interstate still heading east.Sue was quiet and never spoke up. Even her answers to questions were minimal. It was head movements mostly. Once, when she was in the bathroom, I asked Dot if she was always so quiet. "No, it has been since everyone became sick. She hasn't spoken almost at all since our parents died."I was concerned for her as that was not normal for a teenager.. ” I told her. “Look if it,s that near whybdon,t I leave my car here and we walk to your place or are you worried your nosey neighbours will see you and tell your wife?” “I doubt my neighbours would even notice if we walked in my house naked!” “Look I ain,t walking across that road naked, but let,s go to your place and get better acquainted if you like?” she suggested. Outside she suddenly pulled my “Vietnam Veterans” hat off and looked a bit closer. “You really fought in the Vietnam War Joe?”.