He'd thought he'd heard a sound. The door bell could be heard faintly. He motioned Nurse Crow to continue with the robot fucking and then hurried upst...airs.At the front door Officer Smith was becoming impatient. He knew the doc was in there as he never left his exclusive hospital.He pressed the bell for the tenth time just as the door opened."Oh er, officer how can I help?"Smith was surprise by the greeting. The last visit he'd hardly said two sentences."I'm sorry doc but the departments. David and I put up forty and twenty meter antennas. It didn't take long. We connected up the radio and power supply and flipped switches. We pulled up our twenty meter frequency and called. "CQ, CQ, CQ, this is the Pacific air expedition. It's Bobbi calling CQ and standing by."Faintly over the radio came, "Bobbi, this is your dad. It's early in the morning here, really still night. Is everything okay? Over." Yes, dad. We're fine. We have landed in Perth, Australia, and met people. It looks. Her best friend since kindergarden, Allison, or Allie as we all call her, is also 14 at this time. Jill and I do not get along at all. We might as well be from different planets. We are always butting heads and are always getting on each others nerves. I could not wait until the day I moved away to college, 1000 miles away to college&hellip, Things didnt always used to be that way though. Back when we were younger, say elementary school aged, we got along just fine. We often rough housed with. " A look of loss crossed her face. "I guess we have something in common. Mrs. Walton told me about your wife. I'm sorry. We both lost families. I hope, well, maybe we can help each other."Mike was surprised. It was a very perceptive thing for her to say. She might even be right. "I hadn't thought of it that way. I guess we both did lose our family." He looked up to see tears start in her eyes and in one of those intensely human moments his heart went out to her in shared pain and grief. Both.