All of them were patriotic and sympathetic toward the fallen police officer and his wife’s orphan.I asked Tabby, “Do you feel comfortable enough f...or me to go check our ride, Sweetheart?” She hugged Tina, smiled, and told me, “I’m okay here with Tina protecting me, my Love, but don’t please don't be gone too long.” This was a welcome change and much healthier than her clinging to me at the hospital, though I’d thoroughly understood it. I knew she had found her mother substitute, and it was more. "Oh, right," I whispered back. I smiled to a lady who didher make-up, and headed for one of the stalls.It was quite tricky to pee, as well as quite tricky to remove my verytight pants. I remembered to sit, but in all fairness I didn't have achoice. Tom smiled when I walked back to our table. I tried to walk asconfidently as possible, because I dreaded what I was about to do. Tomheld my gaze as I walked towards him. I slowly bent forward, pouted mylips and kissed him with my lips slightly. " That's why we have Sawyer and the CO," Quincy told him."If we are going to be going to the outposts in this province, we're going to have to take gas with us. We're going to need a lot more gas, count on it," I said, echoing Tweeds comments.There wasn't any trouble getting the empty gas drum into the back of the 5/4. The problem came with the full one. The thing weighed over 350 pounds and getting it up into the back of the truck was going to be a major problem.One of the Thai Army NCOs, that. When she told me she was still single, I could feel the ‘old Tom’ try to surface inside me and say ‘get her! get her!”. Don’t get me wrong here, I still loved Ruth, but suddenly I couldn’t stop thinking on Marcia and me getting ‘intimate’, if you know what I mean. I knew I couldn’t advance the line between workmates and else, but it was a urge I was trying to resist with all my strength.Even worse was when I started to get late at home and spend the night at my office, of course with Marcia as.