I was aware of the sun rising and the coming of night. The cycle of tides had become a daily flow in our activities. I had tossed the last vestige of ...civilized time into the evening fire.We were hunting.I was perched on a tree branch high above a faint game trail the girls had found. I was naked except for my genitalia that were stuffed into a loose leather jock-like pouch. I had learned early and painfully why the savages in National Geographic always seemed to be wearing something like this. My heart stopped. I thought she saw me checking her out. She looked at me with a sly smile then kept going. I didn’t know what to do; I thought she was going to say something to my boss. I was freaking out. Next thing I know she’s walking out of her husbands office right towards me. Instead of saying anything to me she walks right on by, but throws a small piece of paper on my desk. I didn’t open it immediately but curiosity soon got the better of me. It simply said, “Basement storage, five. Her apathy astonished even herself.She only had a month or two left when fortune smiled upon her.She was asked if she wanted to participate in a trial of a new radiotherapy technique at the new Lennox Hospital.She had accepted, meekly.She realised that it couldn't cure her, nothing could, but it might give her a few more months, and it might give the doctors enough information to help cure some other young woman, perhaps more deserving than herself...She had already lost a lot of weight, and. I understand you want to be a naval aviator.”“Yes sir I do, it’s something that I have wanted for a long time. I just received notice that my application for flight school was approved. I hope to be a fighter pilot.”Hal gave himself a mental note to thank the Chief of Naval Operations for his quick action when Hal asked him to look into Keith’s application. Hal asked him to check on Keith’s application because Hal’s inquiry to the Naval Academy about Keith indicated Keith was in the top ten.