"Yeah, I would like to have coffee with you." "Great! Do you know the Starbuck's at 10th and Central Avenue?" "I can find it. I know the area," she sa...id. "Good, how about we meet there around 4:00 then?" "Okay, I'll see you then," she said, hanging up the phone. 4:00 found me sitting in the Starbuck's at a table facing the door. I had arrived a few minutes early because I wanted to be there when she arrived. It's a good thing I did too, because she arrived right on time. She walked into the. As the clock approached 1am, I became more nervous and yet excited. I almost wanted to lock the door and pretend I wasn’t home if there was a rattle of the door handle. I fought the urge to call tonight off. Soon I guess I fell asleep. I was awaken by a hand on my mouth and one on my stomach pressing me against the bed. I couldn’t move. The voice told me to say nothing. For a moment I wondered if this was really someone who had found my door open thinking maybe he would find a female inside. However, right now will not be a good time to pressure her. She's feeling a little depressed because of the turn of events; maybe vulnerable is a better word." Kind of like our grandpa after his surgery?" Trent suggested. "He went in for bypass surgery. He was pretty active before he went in and when he came out, he was moving slower and seemed to get old pretty quick." Yeah," Jayson added, settling down in a chair. "But, after about a year his aging seemed to slow down. He still got old, but I. So, we stopped at her house and got her bags packed.And I learned that, yes, it's harder to work with longer nails. But themore I did, the easier it got.I kidded her about how much stuff she was taking. She just looked and meand said, "You just wait."We took her stuff down to where her dad was trying to figure out where toput everything. Luckily he had a car top carrier and a lot of our stuffwould go in there. Then we went to my house and started packing mystuff. And as we did, she would.
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