Memories began to run through my mind of our relationship. I had a memory of us at the park of me pushing her down a log slide, and then another memor...y of us at a festival where I bought her an ice cream cone.I clenched my fist, and then looked at Kathia. “Alright, I’ll do it.”She smiled. “Good, I’m glad that you made that decision. I’m sorry I’ve been harsh with you, but I’m all for family looking out for each other.”“Don’t worry about it, it’s fine.”“Here, look, I will watch you guys to make. I liked the touch and she liked it as we were having fun and laughing and she said it feels good to hug and lets do this often and thus a tradition was set up to imitate whatever we saw in a romantic movie and whatever we liked watching in TV.Since we were alone after our schools in afternoon and we used to to hug each other and bite each other as fun apart from playing different child games and generally in evenings we had a bunch of friends whom we used to meet up and play games like cricket,. Yet, given the nature of the duty she was pulling for ONI, she would wear the stripes. And what a change in outlook it is for me to resent wearing a uniform, and even more so to resent, even a little, the stripes that tickled me so much back in August.Fortunately, the 737 wasn't terribly crowded, being a midweek mid-afternoon flight, and Lenore and the Chief had no one in the third seat on the port side of row 12 sharing their conversation."DiPietro is taking your squad, you said?"Lenore. Do you know he keeps one of Henry's books from last semester on his nightstand? He says he's trying to read it so he can go to college too. Steve actually sits in his chair and tries to sound out the words."The girl said, "Mom, he's not even five, he can't read."The mother said, "Susan, I've helped him sound out words since before he was two and he can easily read the children books for first graders. He has even read to me from "Life" magazine. He gets the Sears catalogue out and reads about.