She looked atme quizzically. "Have you ever counted the cracks in the pavement on theway to school?" Now she looked at me as if I had lost my mind. "S...hould I be worrying about you John?" she asked sincerely. I broke intolaughter. "Thanks Darla, I needed that." She eyed me even more carefully if thatwas possible before letting the matter drop. "John, can you come over to my house after school for a few minutes?" "I guess," I replied thinking of my new responsibilities. She sighed asif I was. We were in line together so to be friendly struck p a conversation with him. He said he hated shopping, but had to do it at least once a month, I told him that I loved to shop especially for clothes, of all kinds. He asked what kind of all kinds,I explained that it was private girl stuff and he laughed we paid our bill. End up walking out together his car was parked across from mine. I said can I buy you a cup of coffee, he said yes but not from Starbucks so I invited him to my house which was. There was training in many other skills that could come before it. Sergeant Chuang and I were sweating heavily by the time we returned to our company area in the heat of the early afternoon. It was well past the midday meal time by then.The clerks and Sergeant Jatuporn were glad to see us and even had food for us that they had brought back from their company when they ate. They had also taken care of my horse, having fed and watered him. It wasn't until sometime later that afternoon that. When I saw a woman who struck my fancy I was either doing something else, or she was in the process of doing something discouraging, like walking down the street with her husband and kids.I said curtly, “Please sit down Miss. We’ll get to you as soon as we can.” She said, “Dr. Morton.” The Doc said, “Yes.” She looked a little puzzled and said to me, “Who are you?” I snapped perhaps a little too abruptly, “I’m his PA! How can we help you?” She said just as snappishly, “My name is Eve Pederson.