It seemed they were sort of heroes and had to endure endless questions and give radio and TV interviews. Finally it calmed down and by evening dinner ...there were just the five around the table. The eight brought off the mountain were being kept in hospital for another night at least but it seemed they would all recover physically. Janet had a toe removed through frostbite and all her toes were in a bad way. She had poor circulation problems before she set out and they didn't yet know if she. "What do you think?" I'd say, go for it. She's cute, and nice. And you need a girlfriend."Sam laughed. "What about you and Mom?" We'll still be here, of course. But you can't really take either of us out to the prom, or anything, can you?"Joan had a point, Sam thought, as he carried the cokes upstairs. It would be better if he had someone he could date publicly. He supposed he could try to turn Marcie or Katarina into a girlfriend, but he really didn't know them very well, while Gina and he had. I marched straight to his house and he followed me with no serious look on. His mother opened the door and welcomed me in. She introduced her husband to me and soon I found myself chatting with my new neighbours over a cup of tea.I had forgotten about the boy when the doorbell rang. Watching that boy again, my anger popped up. I banged my fist on the desk and startled everyone.Me: Aunty, your son is a scoundrel. Please teach him how to behave. He…I still couldn’t tell what he had done the night. ’ ‘It isn’t too late you know.’ ‘Yeah it is for me. I can’t imagine going back to college for two years now.’ ‘I can’t see me doing that either so now I save cars and trucks instead of lives.’ ‘You know when I think back now we had a hell of a good time on our weekend passes.’ ‘If I tried to live like that now it would kill me.’ ‘And that was only what…ten, twelve years ago?’ ‘Yeah something like that. I don’t even want to get that drunk again let alone chase those skaggy women.’ ‘I.