Paula Driscoll was next to call me, about an hour after I got off the phone with Barbara. It took the two of us almost an hour to get caught up with a...ll the changes since I'd gone off to Vermont. Lana had a serious boyfriend, but Paula hadn't found anyone that excited her as of yet. Neither of us had brought Lisa's name into our conversation. We finally just wished each other well and exchanged Christmas greetings before ending the phone call.I almost phoned over to Lisa's house a dozen times. ‘I’m sorry my love. I kind of marked you.’ I reached up to my neck, fingers coming away wet and with a little blood on them. I shrugged and laid back. ‘If you were hungry love, you should have said something, I could have sent out for room service.’ ‘You still need to,’ she said, ‘I’m starved. I didn’t eat on the plane and haven’t eaten yet.’ She smiled and rose to shaky legs. ‘Order me a hamburger and fries and I will shower.’ Nodding, I smiled. ‘Of course Miko. No diet food for you today?’ I. Their sleeping bags and most of their equipment had become wet.They had camped on a low campsite, near a bog, and had been eaten by swarms of mosquitoes. They had actually seen the mosquitoes coming across the lake in a cloud, just before sunset. Fortunately, they had been able to climb into the tent to escape the hungry little demons. Inside, they had endured the irritating humming as the insects frantically sought to enter their safe haven.Their latest mishap occurred when they were caught in. ..the night of oblivion past,That I might traverse times and spaces far remote and bringComforts into a present sorrow and a night of pain? William Blake"Evie," I finally replied, "what you're asking is something that wisemen have never been able to answer."She swallowed hard and the corners of her mouth turned down. "Maybethose wise men just aren't very smart." Maybe not. But I think that God's knows that if people on Earth aregood, they can watch out for each.