He had always trusted me to look out for myself, a trait my mother hadn’t adopted. “Thanks dad” I replied lingering in his doorway for a minute ...then walking on, “Hey where are those bracelets you bought the other day?” I smiled, though unprepared for this question, “Uh, I threw them away, they started to make my wrists go green…” I heard dad tuting quietly and mutter something to the effect of “Damn eBay rubbish…” eBay being the place I’d told him I’d bought it. In fact I’d got it from a expert. Bob saw but didn't speak to Stacy and Lou at a basketball game, some years later. Her cute little figure was gone. She had put on at least 40 pounds.After about six years of so-called wedded bliss, Stacy and Lou got divorced. Lou has a problem with alcohol and hasn't amounted to much. Some of Bob's acquaintances have told Bob that Stacy after the divorce moved to a small town and became a third grade teacher. She also was said to have put more weight on. Bob thought that bulking up was a. " Enough, I will not take the advice of a disgraced ex-Patrol officer. Now heave to or suffer the consequences." The swarm is armed with a disintegration weapon of undetermined power and range, Admiral," Jan broke in. "An attack may activate it." More advice," the Admiral sneered. "Nothing can stand before a Nebula Class Space Dreadnought. Now heave to and get out of the way, Warbringer out." Ol' 'Hot Jets' at his finest," Rae groaned. "If he's not careful, he and seven hundred crewmen are. Elizabeth Sumar, a beautiful Indian woman, barely out of her 20's came around from her desk and gave me a firm hand shake. She asked if I had my writing assignment done. I told her I did. She then made herself comfortable in one of the chairs and motioned for me to have a seat in one of the others, which I did. "Would you please be so kind as to read what you wrote out loud for me?" She did not look up from her tablet. She expected me to read it. So this is what I read.----------Growing up in a.