Anisha said that even she wants to have one glass of beer and asked whether I would accompany her? I was surprised to hear that she would be intereste...d for a beer and said “why not, but I didn’t knew you drink beer”. She replied that earlier during her college days she use to drink beer. I immediately got up went to the kitchen and got the glass and the bottle from the fridge. I poured the beer for her in the glass and gave her the glass. We started to drink beer and continued to watch the. ’ Holly got up from the floor and stalked toward me. She faced me across the desk and I knew I was in for a fight. ‘Two months ago, my best friend got married. She was more than a best friend. She was my sister. We met in a foster home. We named each other, did you know that? I gave her a name and she gave me one. Our mothers never bothered naming us. That’s the first of many things we have in common.’ Holly suddenly turned away from me, her back rigid. ‘As if it’s not enough that she gets. .” That was as far as I got.As soon as I heard myself actually say her name out loud (for the first time in three years), the tears started streaming down my face.Here I was, a combat veteran of the Marine Corps with a Silver Star and a Purple Heart while in Iraq and suddenly I was bawling like a baby!I don’t remember falling down on my hands and knees, but that was where I suddenly found myself. I blamed my dizzy spell at first.Then Debbie was beside me on her knees as well.She put her arm. Her obvious favorite was Vern.I tried to secretly grab glimpses ever so brief, too quick to actually be caught trying to perceive what was going on behind me. My curiosity wrapped in fear was strong and when I finally pictured the person I’d be dealing with I was shocked beyond reason. I saw lots of bare skin. That was crazy. Surely I was mistaken. This female person was getting undressed, here, working in this dirty smelly environment? Impossible.Beyond the other crew members near the stairs.
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