"Meredith shrugged. It wasn't something she had ever considered – because she was so much taller than everyone she hung out with it was never an opt...ion."I'm going to have to wash and dry some things," she said. "I wasn't really planning on staying for a few more days."Rachelle didn't answer but simply held up a finger and disappeared. She returned a few minutes seconds later with half the female group in tow and a small stack of folded clothing."We picked these up at an estate sale a few weeks. I can’t help but looking him over. He catches me doing it and smiles wider, but I also catch him putting his chest out and, almost imperceptibly, pulling in what little gut he has. Bill shuts down the machine. Frank walks over and shakes the suited man’s hand. ‘You think that’ll do it?’ ‘I know it will.’ ‘How do you know it?’ ‘Because I designed this thing and I designed it wrong. My fault. But this is the solution and it’ll work.’ The suited man’s eyes keep roaming over to me. ‘Sorry, Ben.. "Do you have a place?" I asked him back.He took his wallet out, paid the tab and then jerked his head towards the door. I got up and realized I was a little unsteady on my feet and then I tookhis arm for support.After sitting down in the passenger seat, I attacked the young black man, with a kiss so hard, that our teeth actually smashed into each other. As histongue started dueling with mine, he realized that I was trying to be the aggressor. But finally I won out, and my tongue went searching. Maria Cortez and her family would be making arrangements and shouldering the expenses at that time. Peter couldn't give us any exact times when Father Juan Carlos Domingo would begin his journey home. It was in the hands of others now. I had said my good-bye to him in the van coming here from the farm with Maria. As I left the funeral home I felt a weight lifted from me. I felt good also that I had borne that burden without hesitation and completed the task that had been given me. At times I.