Hell, seems to me love is wanting someone till you got every last ounce of them and they kinda disappear. Sure enough, Kelly began hinting about the t...ime I spent with Annie and I had to start lying to her some, then tell Annie that I might be seeing a little less of her for a while. She smiled and pulled my ear.'Happened before, Doug, and it'll happen again. I guess I know you pretty well by now. I been crazy in like with you since that day you sweet talked me into having a fuckin' pizza and. "Surely" he would ask me, "There must have been some woman sometime, somewhere that I had met that would 'keep me at home' and off of the road?"The problem was, there really hadn't been any. You don't meet many women at hobo railroad camps, and I was a bit too proud even after thirty years of living on the rails to go up to strange houses and beg for food or money. That really limited my romantic opportunities quite a bit.When pressed, I admitted that long time ago when I was still green to the. I'm afraid I also saw you kill that older woman on my first day here."Lilly hung her head and a tear trickled down her face."I'm Lilly, and I'm English, too. The girl I killed was called Martha, from New York, and was my best friend. I don't suppose you understand, but I had to do it. She told me to kill her before the fight. It was a death fight - like in the arena in ancient Rome! But when it came to it she fought hard to live and to beat me. I've had more bad times than I care to think about. I admit I probably looked at the tableau a bit longer than necessary, but I was interested in the fact that the variety of females was interesting from a purely scientific point of view.I saw China Dolls, a couple of dark-skinned country girls from the Deep South and some nut-brown Senoritas from below the border. Right in the middle of the pack was a lost-looking blonde with the bluest eyes I had ever seen wearing a corset that accentuated her perfect heart-shaped bottom like a frame in some.