You just remember you can ask me for anything. Whatever I haveis yours."That last comment made me stop and think. Did she mean she wanted toshare her ...inheritance with me? 'That's crazy,' I thought. 'It's herretirement fund. What's she thinking?'"Mom, all I need is you - and my friends. You know how much I love Mark,but if it doesn't work out I'll survive. Honest." But even as I mouthedthose words I knew I wasn't being even close to honest. If I lost himI'd be totally devastated, plain and. He threw his forearms up, and a shoe damn near broke his left forearm as he deflected it into the asphalt. Angry and choking, Jake grabbed the ankle and pulled it across his body to unbalance his attacker, which quickly turned out to be a mixed result as something heavy landed across his chest and began pummeling the shit out of him. He grabbed an arm after the elbow slammed into his head sendind stars dancing across his vision, and shifted his weight to pin and break the arm. A very feminine. "I'm used to it. I know I look... different." The truth of the matter is," I said rather too forcefully, trying to steer quickly away from this topic, "I WAS leering; but only because you are a remarkably beautiful girl. Please accept my heartfelt apology and deepest contrition. It won't happen again." Wanna bet?" Brenda said, grinning tauntingly at me. I gave her another glare and she laughed.I was making a very conscious effort NOT to stare, and just for something to do, I reached into my. However, we would really like to hear personal comments on our experiences, and in particular from those who may have had similar experiences.Our objective is to publish a piece of our story every month (hopefully from each of our viewpoints and recollections) until we bring the story to conclusion when our involvement ended with us finding ourselves separated by long distances when I chose not to follow Kate to the same university where she was a junior.Below is our outline, and we will.