He tells me how well the surgeon said the operation went, how she’s been feeling, how brave and stoic she’s been. He shares his fears that he has... been a burden to her with his scared and selfish reaction. He blinks away tears as he tells me how much he loves her and how he just wants her to be healthy and happy and how glad he is that I’m here to provide a distraction. I bristle, wondering if it is a loaded comment, that he knows more than he is letting on. But I can’t help but find myself. It was difficult to judge their size through the lens, but they seemed just as large as Bobo and Fergus had suggested. They walked upright, like ogres, but their entire bodies were covered with curly gray fur. They carried clubs or spears, and some wore satchels made of animal hide, which suggested a level of intelligence.They ran with a strange hopping gait, not bothering to use the trail that had been broken. With their long legs, they simply leapt through the deep snow.And they kept coming,. . interest you in a walk? Maybe for ice cream?”“That sounds very nice.”Gee felt he got to know Karen beyond her professional life, and she got to see that he was more than a man with no history.“Take the idea that all people are created equal,” Gee said. “Does that mean that every person in every stage of his or her life is equal to every other?”“Doesn’t that require a definition of ‘equality’?” Karen responded. “People can be created with and have equal value without having equal economic or. “I just need someone who really cares, to love me. Is that too much to ask?”He watched her intently, and wondered, if anyone really has shown Cindy love. Not the kind a parent has for a child, but the kind of love that exists between men and woman, a true unconditional kind.She paused, and looked into his eyes, and saw tears. She then wondered, “Is he feeling the same way I am, about him, could this be love?”He saw a hint of love in her soft green-eyes. He felt the reaction stir his heart that.