Only her elder bro Rob shows some understanding and sometimes offers her his helping hand. To avoid a complete scholarly stand still, he borrows her h...is computer and shows her sites, where she can pick up some useful knowledge for free. Later, he takes her along running a few times a week, to keep her in some shape. Linda is still her only friend in those first few years of loneliness. As before, sleepovers in some weekends. Being secretly in love with Linda, Alessandra hides her glances at her. It had obviously been moved. She was no longer taking care to put it back exactly as it was. I wasn’t sure what that could mean.After five nights in the guest room, she let me back into our bed. It was uncomfortable, but it gave me hope that things were improving little by little. It was a few nights later, a good while after she had clicked off the lights and turned her back to me, when she finally said something.“You awake?”“Yes.”“I’ve been thinking a lot about what you said.” She. ”“That’s great. We’ve been wondering how to improve our diversity numbers and you came through for us,” replied his boss in a voice that indicated surprise at the accomplishment.“Mike’s wife was looking for a job and I hired her. I offered the job to the two kids that live next door and they accepted. Didn’t really do anything special other than make the offer when I found people who were looking for work.” Jerry was confused by the conversation.There was a long moment of silence on the phone.. As we were wrapping everything up one of the officers told me that he had seen me on TV the night before and thanked me profusely for what I had done. He said he wished so many people did not stand idly by as something suspicious happens.By the time we finished with the incident, it was nearing noon so we went back to the Winnie to have some lunch. We ate our sandwiches, fed and changed the babies and talked about what we had been through. As we talked I felt like a great load had been lifted.