"We're going to meeting downtown with Craig. Put your dishes away and get dressed." Ashlee chastised her as we were walking out the door.I drove my Je...ep and helped her in. I got a glimpse of her panties up her skirt, and when she realized what I was looking at, all she said was later."You have got the greatest legs Ash. I can't help looking." Well you can look at them all you want later. Right now, we have to keep our head together for the meeting. Got it?" She playfully said in her stern MOM. Neither wanted Russian men. So they pooled their money to buy lovely clothes, then had to pay a photographer to have their pictures taken. They signed up to be brides for westerners, preferrably rich Americans. They got some hits from men looking for wives but nothing turned out for Ludmilla. Olga found an American and married him. She talked the man into giving Ludmilla enough money for another year.Ludmilla thought she should have been the one the man married. She could speak English, Olga. I smile as I looked at the presents under the tree. One I recognized; it was the one I had wrapped for him. The other one I assumed must be for me. As I got closer, I stopped and looked intently at the tree. The lights twinkled, and reflected off the ornaments that had been collected over the years. I looked at the star at the top of the tree and remembered the rhyme from childhood, “Star light, star bright, first star I see tonight. I wish I may, I wish I might, have this Christmas wish. Yeah, my gear got twisted out of shape, but that's why it's there. Anill-fitting grounded causality suit is a small price to pay forpreventing a full-scale localized reality restructuring. I'm a goddamnedhero.The way my colleagues are shouting, though, you'd think the world justended. Their words are muffled by the safety glass, but their flailingarms and worried expressions are clearly visible through the window.You'd think I turned into a bug-eyed monster or sprouted a few extralimbs when I'm.