Lauren: Hey Penny! Hope everything is well. Just wanted to see if you were coming to the reunion.Penny: Oh my gosh! Great to hear from you. Yes, I’m... definitely going. I’m trying to talk Charlie into coming too.Lauren: That would be great! It’s been so long since I saw him. Penny: He’s actually really nervous about it. He hasn’t really seen anyone from Pleasant Valley since we graduated.Lauren: I don’t think a ton of people will be there, it’s only a five year.Penny: I probably shouldn’t say. After he left the table, Sam responded.“Maybe? Is that why you’re here?” He held his utensils in his hand waiting for her answer before he tore into his tenderloin.“Maybe? It was a great opportunity to just start over you know. Things were such shambles back home, you know.”“We weren’t that better off than you,” he replied.“I won’t rat you out since you work for the embassy.” She cut a corner off her piece of Cordon Bleu and gently placed it in her mouth. “Appreciate that. Another. It may have been that the pain in her knees distracted her enough that she didn't just shut down. It might have been kinder if she had lost consciousness just then, because her brain, though stressed in a hundred different ways, was still capable of putting all the bits and pieces of information together that told her what she had done ... and what had resulted from it."Nooooooooooo," she groaned. Her knees hurt, and her thigh muscles relaxed to let her fall. Her body accommodated automatically. Htm]“What’s that smell?”“Incense. Everything here smells like that.”I led her into the nave and she gasped.“Whoa!” she said in a loud whisper. “This is, well, I don’t even KNOW what it is!”“Overwhelming? That’s the usual thing we hear from Protestants when they visit.”“I don’t even know what to say! Can you explain?”“I’ll try. Let me light a votive candle for my friend Jocelyn first.”“Huh? What good does THAT do?”I ignored her and went to the stand in the back of the church, dropped the proper.