“She is someone you love. I understand that. I wanted nothing more than that thing to have been my mother even if...” She looks away briefly befor...e locking eyes with the man across from her again. “If it were me, I would expect you to put the safety of those still alive and in danger first.”“But I can’t do that,” Gunnar blurts. “I’m sorry, Eisley, but Audra is too important to me.”Eisley’s features soften. “I understand and I have something for you.” She turns and pulls out a drawer from a. Theologians agree God knows all or as the Koran says, "It is written." Einstein's space/time theory of relativity agrees. If so, my story was written at the instant of the big bang, predetermined like my life, even if an infinitesimally minute flicker in it all.Am I religious? Some say as science advances religion retreats. To me, it's the opposite. The more we know the more complicated it is. We only learn there’s vastly more we don’t know. Now they say most of the universe is made up of dark. The girls were dressed slutty like me and boys were enjoying beer and music, “They are my friends and they gave me this dare to fuck with a stranger.” The man looked at my friends and then looked back at me. He did want to fuck me but he didn’t seem sure about it. “I’m sorry, I can’t. Fucking a stranger is always a risk” he said and left me standing there. After five minutes a car pulled over. “You need a lift, Miss?” the first man sitting in driver’s seat asked. I bent over the window and. "Betty spoke, "Ben, I take it you don't want to press charges?" No, of course not. Both Mattie and Joan reacted in anger from a perceived hurt. Mattie from the loss of her mother and Joan from trying to stop her children from labeling her." That's pretty perceptive, Ben. I think you are doing the right thing."Mattie and I went to the door of the next room. They could see us of course. I knocked anyway. Percy jumped up and came out. Mattie and he hugged with a "I love you, Gramps." I was.