He said, "We have a large war chest invested. How are our investments doing?" They are doing fine. A lot of our investments are growing in value, but ...to access the money we would need to sell them. We are going to have to change our investment strategy in order to make them a little more liquid. It looks to me like we are going to have to live off of them for the rest of the foundation's future," Ed answered.William looked at Ed and saw that he had been aging significantly over the past few. Our planned destination was a small primitive camping area with only a few sites and a pond within walking distance where Dave was hoping to do some night fishing. The campground turned out to be full, so we made a rather long drive to another camping area.The second location was more heavily wooded and easily had twice as many campsites, all spread apart for a lot of privacy. A few RV’s were squeezed in here though there weren’t any utility connections, and there was a group of older guys. The girls went and changed and joined them in the drawing room. Mark told them to help themselves to a drink.When everyone got back he quietly buttonholed Annette. "Tig," he said, "I've already told your parents but your erstwhile father was convicted of child pornography and sentenced to a minimum of three years in prison."Annette's face fell. "Golly! That's not long," she interrupted. "Oops, sorry! It's just that I might still be young enough for him to come after me when he gets out." No,. Alex McMannis.'He stood there for a long speechless moment, staring in shock while he tried to reconcile the sight of me, a woman of 25, with the memory of that young boy who had lived next door.'I should go, ' I choked. I started to turn away as my eyes filled with tears. 'This wasn't a good idea. You're probably disgusted by me.''Alex, wait, ' he stammered. 'I'm not disgusted. I'm just very, very surprised. I wasn't expecting... ''You weren't expecting me to be a girl?' I finished his.