“Please, take a seat. I’ll bring two more chairs for us. Would you like some water?”They both nodded. “Yes, please,” Janice said.I stepped i...nto the office to retrieve two chairs and three bottles of water, and went back outside. I set up the chairs, handed out the water, and sat down. “How has your recovery been, Kaitlin?”She shrugged. “It’s been okay.”“It’s been hard,” Janice added with a sad smile. “She’s had four surgeries, two on her jaw, and two more on her wrist and hand. The last one was. Anyone who had never met the old Buffy would assume this person, whospent most of the time on the couch these days, was an overweight,middle aged man. If she had been a gay man I believe the term would havebeen 'bear'.Most of her hair had fallen out so shaving it seemed like the bestoption. She had gone along with it. Her perfect eyebrows were no longerplucked, just sort of bushy and unkempt. Her strong, if slightly bloatedjaw was always stubbly even if she shaved it in the morning, so she. She stuck them together in assorted ways until she had a shape she liked, welded ‘em together and lived in ‘em.I sent several containers out to the mine and stored tools in ‘em ... theft stopped. Five SNJ’s went to the RANR (Royal Australian Naval Reserve.) And five to the Royal New Zealand Navy Reserves ... much cheaper for training. They loved me ... until they found out AB Austin is a girl.I’d had surplus hangars bought and assembled on the north side of the old 26 runway and reseeded it.. Its hard to explain. Sort of asking but demanding in the same way, but nicely. I suppose this was the military training again.The next evening I took three photos with me. The first showed Julie in "A summer dress!" at a wedding. The second was of her on the beach on holiday and the third I kept to myself."Did you bring a photo"I produced the two from my overall pocket. Colin took a sip from his drink as he looked at her in the dress. "Very Nice" he said. He seemed to stare at this one for an.