I stood up and looked around to find my children. It was about time—yes, the ride they were on had eased to a stop and they were clambering off, eyi...ng me and the two strangers with me. I turned to face them as they raced up and went down on my haunches again.“Tommy ... Judy, I want you to meet some really good friends of mine. This is Mercedes ... and her daughter, Mattie.”The children stood looking at each other for a moment, not quite knowing what to do. I pushed everyone past the. And once again I feel our lips together as one, tasting myself on his lips. Our lips and tongue play with each other in a gentle game of tag, tasting each other’s mouths, feeling each other’s warmness and softness. Love swelled deeply in my heart as we kiss deeply, lovingly… I gently cradle his face in my hands as we kiss, pulling him closer to me. I drank in his kisses thirstily, as if I was stranded in the desert and his kisses were water. They were. They were the water of my soul that I had. It was turning into a hot day already so I turned the air conditioning on. Next I slid open the back door of the kennel and wheeled out the pile of dog crap all the way to the property line at the back of our yard. Next to one of the giant oak trees that divided our yard from our neighbors behind us I dumped it onto an existing pile of the stuff. I got a hose afterward and sprayed out the wheelbarrow and then filled up the dogs' water trough. After filling up their bowls with food the large. My CFO estimates that we have created over ten thousand domestic jobs tied to our expansion into space. There are another fifty-thousand jobs world-wide that have come about as we build infrastructure and components for delivery to our space operations.”“What about the Chinese and European presence on Astra and now expanding to the moon?” Dan Rather asked. “It’s our understanding that America will soon no longer have the majority of space-based residents.”Kelly was shaking her head.“This.