’ The Iberia flight landed on time at Barajas airport, and I noted the pleasing increase in temperature as I nervously awaited my suitcase, wonderin...g how I should recognise Ana. I needn’t have worried. As emerged from the flight area, a slightly shorter, chubbier version of Rosa, dressed in jeans and a floppy tee-shirt, was holding up a piece of cardboard with ‘JULIE’ printed on it. She kissed me in the Spanish manner I had by now become used to, and we found her big, untidy Mercedes on the. This was my first visit since the day I was beaten by Chris Libby and his pals. Somehow, being there didn't bother me as much as I'd expected.Mom laughed and said, "You need a lot more clothes than you've got right now, so I thought we could spend the afternoon shopping." As soon as she said that, my face lit up with a smile that felt like my face was splitting. "First we need some lunch," said Mom, "and then we'll start our grand shopping trip."Gail and I ran to the mall's entrance and raced. She looked at her phone. She had two lines on hold at that moment."Can I meet him, like we said?" Marcia was practically whining.Sunny sighed; she didn't have time for this. She flipped through her calendar and said, "He doesn't have anything scheduled after noon tomorrow, but..." Oh, that's perfect," squealed Marcia, "see you then." But..." said Sunny. She was too late, Marcia had already hung up.Sunny half expected Marcia to show up at dawn on Friday, but she didn't actually arrive until. "Cupid! My good friend!" God pushed back from the desk and came around it, grasping Cupid's small hand in his big beefy one and shaking it so hard Cupid's feathers shook and his arrows rattled in their quiver."Lord," he managed to squeak as he tried to stop his teeth from chattering."Have a seat, have a seat." He waved the small cherub into one of the huge, deep leather chairs and took the other one instead of going around the desk. "How've you been?"It's serious, Cupid thought. The big man.