She held my hands, looked into my eyes. "I'd like to see you again."13/I managed to find the pool showroom where Stephanie worked withoutfurther incid...ent. Distracted, I was in a beautiful daze; a mist ofcuriosity and happiness hanging over me.I entered the pool show room, and found a woman at a desk."Can I help you?" she asked perkily."I'm here to see Stephanie," I told Anna, noticing her name tag. Ithought about Stephanie telling me about how his co-worker and hislandlady had seen his bra.. . somewhere. He had been so many things and so many people. If only he could collect them all together. What a person he would be. He would become megalos kai kalos—a great and good man. Or simply a fool, broken down to miniscule parts and divided among the generations that followed—recombined and separated—ground to dust and scattered across the generations.No wonder there were no longer great men and women. They were past. They lived on, but in mere bits of their ancient glory, parceled out. ‘This is Lisa, my Daughter’ Donna said. Lisa smiled, looked at me and slipped off the loose robe she was wearing, revealing a light blue bikini. ‘I was going to use the hot tub’, she said, as she plopped down in the chair beside Lee and I. I couldn’t help but sneak a glance or two, then I heard a noise and looked over, here was a carbon copy of the girl next to us! ‘And this is Kathy, my other daughter’ Donna said. There was no doubt, these girls were twins, there was no way to tell them apart!. We did some grocery shopping and then, after putting that in the car, she suggested a walk around. We went into the dress shop and she asked if there was anything I needed. “How about this” she said, holding up a sheer nighty. “My mum would have a heart attack if I wore that” I said. Sue laughed “I think I will buy it anyway. I like it” she said. We walked back to the car and headed home. We had lunch and then I laid down on the back deck while watching Sid in the garden. At one stage he took.
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