"Chris, there are things that happened after your mom died that I think you should know. I waited to tell you because you were somewhat under Kyle's i...nfluence then. Mom and I needed to know that you had a clear head before telling you these things."Some of this stuff you might remember and others, probably not. You hallucinated during this time. To begin, you had a breakdown at your mother's funeral. Mom and I called an ambulance and had you taken to the hospital. They medicated you there for. When that happens you just have to learn from the mistakes and try to make better decisions in the future. You don't need to be in a hurry to experience everything you want to do. You have lots of time too."I sat back. I felt strange. I really wanted to help these people, not that I'm a do-gooder or anything. They had just had a strange and tough way of living, like the jungle boy who is brought to America and doesn't know how to act. They would have made a good case study for a sociology. Since she had no objections, they immediately put her on the night shift. Most of the older nurses hated the night shift because it interfered so much with their home life and made their spouses irritated at their absence when they were needed to smooth over some sort of family problem that required a mother’s touch. The single nurses hated it because it interfered with their “love-life” and meant they could not be as social as they wanted to be when they were still young and attractive.Lucy. Even a light rain can produce an eight-foot tall wall of water moving down this canyon at speeds of twenty miles an hour. You don’t even want to imagine what a heavy rain will do. Anyone in this canyon during a rainstorm will be dead.”The student asked, “How do you know this?”Smiling, Ed answered, “I once had the displeasure of riding out of a canyon like this in front of a wall of water. We lost one man, half the herd, and three horses. That’s why I sleep next to my horse and saddle at.
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