Pēteris examined the hand before him. There was a large splinter driven directly into the boy’s palm. The hand was hot, swollen, and red. The splin...ter was surrounded by pus. The good news was the lack of angry red streaks that often indicated sepsis.“I couldn’t get the splinter out,” wailed the boy’s mother. “I have no man, and when it broke off, I couldn’t get a grip on it. We heard about you and walked two days to get here.”Pēteris turned to the blonde and asked, “Robyn, what do you think?”“I. Each of the girls could easily imagine the goings on later to come that evening. Obviously, April will be on the receiving end of the deal, but May and June also ‘imagined’. After the ‘I do’s’ all three sisters squealed with delight. The champagne flowed freely. August thought about how lucky he was that his oldest daughter had found a decent guy. There was a short period of time he began to worry that April wouldn’t find a good guy, she kept finding lazy, unemployed, losers. Yet, here was this. Her mother was dead and the one thing I had to give her, she lost the first time she wore it,” Grover sobbed. “We didn’t speak to each other for months. Then I realized we’d lose each other if we didn’t patch it up. We agreed never to mention it again. Oh, if only she’d known that she had it all along, we could have put it all behind us.” He was desperately weeping by that time and I was afraid the old man would have a heart attack right there on the phone and I’d have another estate to. “So what, I was one of popular k**s in my school, and it was a lot bigger than this,” I said as I pulled him towards the table. When we reached it I said, “Hi, mind if we sit down?”Almost simultaneously every boy said, ‘Sure, have a seat,’ and most of the girls said, ‘No, they’re taken.’I decided to ignore the girls and said “Thank you.” It was then that I noticed that while the girls were rolling their eyes, the guys had theirs firmly locked on my chest. Once we were seated I said, “Hi, I’m.