We have offices in Colorado Springs and Pittsburgh, and I do some other travel for work as well. I was in Europe and Asia on work last fall.”“I’...d love to travel, but never have! Need a companion?” she smirked.I held up my left hand, “I don’t think you could have missed this.”“Says the man who called a dinner bet ‘tame’!”I chuckled, “True. And I believe you responded by saying I shouldn’t be so sure about that. Was that before or after you noticed my ring?”“I didn’t notice it until after because. "Just 'cause of what ourparents have done, doesn't mean we can't enjoy Christmas, right?" ...Right," Ellie said with a smile as a knock came from the frontdoor. "Ugh, speak of the devil..." Ellie forced a smile on her face asshe opened the door, but it soon faded when she saw her motherstanding on the doorstep."Hello Ellie," Sharon said stoically. "Is Jade ready to go?" She's just on the loo," Ellie replied, before biting her lip andstanding aside to let her mother in. "You can come in and wait. Erin and Sara just takes one of the cars and go shopping while their husbands are at each others throats. The girls pay them back by running up their credit cards."Gabrielle laughed."They also theaten them with cutting them off with loving unless they behave themselves but you know all four are either the Four Musketeers or the Four Stooges." More like the Four Stooges. I have to admit that John is a big help here. I'm glad I brought him in even though he can act like an ape at times. I just. ” Steiner has just quoted descriptions of the brutal deaths of two Jews at the Treblinka extermination camp. “Precisely at the same hour in which Mehring and Langner were being done to death, the overwhelming plurality of human beings, two miles away on the Polish farms, five thousand miles away in New York, were sleeping or eating or going to a film or making love or worrying about the dentist. This is where my imagination balks. The two orders of simultaneous experience are so different, so.