. we were a big fan of alliteration back then. John, Jenny, Janice, and J-”Liz interrupted, “It’s okay, you don’t have to say that name if you... don’t want to.”Sarah replied, “Thanks. I wish everyone would just forget that I was ever called that, but that’ll never happen.”“Well, Sarah,” Liz started, emphasizing Sarah’s name. “Besides Janice, does anyone not call you Sarah?”“Oh, yeah, plenty of people,” Sarah answered in a sad tone. “There’s her, her parents, her whole family really. And also lots. Still fighting Alan had actually grasped another rung further up but movement was becoming harder and harder. Looking up he saw that he was several feet from the opening.Dropping his head Alan looked at the floor. If I fall he thought, I am dead, if I don’t get out of here I am dead. Shaking his Alan again tried to fight the numbness that was starting to creep up his body.Suddenly a rope swung next to his arm. “Grab it Alan! We’ll pull you out!” What the hell? Was that Harman? Wrapping his arm. Yeah, go for it but don't take too long."The Captain left, Jack looked at me and bragged...I smiled at Banzai and bragged, "Baffled his ass with bullshit!"Banzai scolded, "Hell Jack, I didn't think he would go for that lie."Jack gave me a self-satisfied smile, blew on his fist, wiped it on his chest and stated, "That's because my boy, you didn't know that was one of the stories I told the Marines about our time in Russia. I knew it would get back to the fucking Captain. So what the hell are you. Well that year Henk went on a business trip and just never came home again. Apparently he had been doing a deal in Manila and had met a new girl who was even younger than Pim and he told his wife he was divorcing her. Pim came over for a lot of crying sessions and told my mom that this was a huge scandal for a conservative family from Thailand so she would need to stay in the USA. She ended up getting the house and a lot of money in the settlement so Pim continued to live next door. My mom.