I was wondering around the house, bored and looking for something to do. Wondering into my parents room I noticed that in her hurry to get to work Mom... had left her panty drawer wide open. Knowing that I was all alone I excitedly decided to have a look at her panties, I wasn't even sure why but I my heart was racing as I looked at all her bra's and panties - most of them white and in different fabric - lace, cotton and satin. One particular pair caught my attention, probably because they were a. It was a visible switch ... like someone had thrown a switch or started a Ferrari. From housewife to supermodel."The Southern Star sailed out of Manila with three hundred twenty three nurses and dependent wives and their children. The children aged from babies in arms to seventeen year old high school girls ... the boys stayed."The ship was 235 feet of slow moving rust. She had a crew of 23 ... mostly stokers ... a Captain ... Angus Alabaster, from Australia. Harold Potter, first mate, from. She’d had to fight to keep them from taking my signed baseball collection. If she hadn’t watched over the process, I’m was sure they’d have taken everything in the room.“I don’t know what I’ll do. I just wanted to put things back like Mr. Smith had them.” Sheila had left Sunday evening and Mattie knew she needed to leave as well. I’d gone to the newspaper office and was wrestling with the big story of Jack’s disappearance.“First of all, you’re going to need a computer. They didn’t cut any of. When I reached down, I found I was lying on my birthstone. For some reason Brenda hadn't been able to take it with her when she had been returned to this 'other-world'. According to Charles, it was a unique thing, to be guarded at all times. I believed it was the key to me being able to take Brenda into my dreamtime, and I had brought it back with me.Closer examination of the black stone showed that there were still only two carvings on its surface. If Charles was right, that meant that nothing.