We’ve played a lot of ball and tag.”“What about your studies?” I asked as I walked over and hugged the young girl.“Lenore and Miki won’t l...et me skip them,” Erica mock complained. “Lenore even had me taking water and soil samples during our hike yesterday.”“And what have you found?” I asked.“The water is clean. I think there are some small colonies of bacteria near some of the hot springs, but they are just getting started. The rock is almost all igneous in origin. Rainfall and wind has eroded. Roger gave him ecstasy and took two for himself. They all washed therm down with Dom Perignon straight from the bottle.As soon as they entered the fancy suite in downtown Minneapolis and Roger had gotten rid of his stuffed backpack, he rushed out the door. Having gotten an inside connoisseurship of the exotic dance, he walked to Rick's, a chain club nearby and enjoyed an attractive bottled blonde for an hour of private dancing. Not in the exceptional league of Mary or Marta, his penis responded. " "We were just playing around. Honest! See?" I show him our ids to prove we're married. "We have the same last name. We were just being stupid." He laughs. "Oh shit! I should have known you were hotter than most of the crack whores working the streets around here." His flashlight lingered on Paula's chest. "Okay, well we're going to leave now." I move to start the car but he stops me. "Not so fast Romeo. It's my job to report this and call the authorities to come down here…" He was clearly. She hadn't even had to push all that much; it was like Seth had practically slithered out from inside her.When she was younger, her own mother had regaled her with tales of hours and hours of prenatal agony, waiting for baby Dianna to finally deign to grace the world with her presence. If she had still been in contact with her mother, she would have had to brag, but that relationship had ended years ago, when Dianna had come out as a lesbian to her staunchly Catholic parents. She didn't miss.