Locate medical supplies and bring them aboard the vessels.Find any fuel, Gasoline, Diesel, or any Aviation fuels. Get what they could and bring it bac...k.Tim told them he thought their personnel trucks and automobiles could be put on the barges and taken with them.The first scavenging party left the next morning in two four wheel drive pickups followed by Tim's three ton van.Their mission was to check a grocery warehouse at Pritchard. If it had not been burned or looted there might be food they. Their self-worth was not defined or bounded by their relationship with Jake. Even Nina was blossoming. Tonight, for instance, she and Donna were double-dating to a new dance club on the boardwalk. Faith was going to the movies with Jennie Murphy. She had tried to get Leslie to go along but Les begged off.By eight that evening, the kids were all tucked into bed. Jake, Trish, Erika, Leslie, and Melissa were in the living room listening to music and discussing what Jake had learned from the. Beatrice looked up at me, stunned. My yes followed hers and saw that I was clutching her right breast with one hand and her derriere with the other.I was terribly embarrassed and began an apology, but Dennis cut me off, and took her into his arms in more of a hug than an embrace, cooing soft words into her ear. The next thing I knew the three of us were seated on the settee with Beatrice between us. And she began talking as if nothing had happened."Well, there was my piano teacher, he was so. Put your arms around me like when I was a little girl and hold me tight while I go to sleep."Daddy responded "That's just the problem sweetheart, you aren't a little girl anymore, you are a grown up beautiful woman. I don't think you should stay the night in my bed Mary." But why daddy, I'm afraid of the dark and that noise outside. Let me stay with you." I pleaded in that soft c***dish voice that I knew daddy could not say no to.He motioned to me to lay down in the bed. "Now go to sleep young.