I work in an office and Mike is an executive in a software company. We had known Franco about six months and he sometimes came over and fixed out air ...conditioner or had dinner with us. This night was just a normal summer night in Arizona--about 105 degrees during the day and down to 95 at night. We had hamburgers and beer and were just shooting the breeze like we did every night. I was wearing a tank top with no bra and thin cotton shorts and Franco and Mike were in t-shirts and shorts. We had. Lately American was the destruction of the American way. Close it down, ship it overseas, and buy it back cheaper ... but raise prices to put more money in the pockets of the rich. Business has always been buy cheap and sell dear.It wasn't coming overnight, but it was coming. The across Michigan Canal was nearing completion and the abandoned rails were being replaced with long line track and concrete sleepers. The new Princessapality had fair wages for fair work ... and their health insurance. ”“My God,” was all I could say to the seductive looking 10-year-old in front of me. I moved to see her close up.I felt a hand on my chest as Sarah said, “Whoa there, big fella, now isn’t the time, OK?”I understood what she’d said but – Wow, Kalista is every bit as beautiful as any of the other women in this room right now; however, Sarah is right, so I leaned up against the pillows behind me and finally was able to form words as I said, “Sensational, Princess.”“Do you need to take a cold. I had changed. Not merely by how I looked, but I felt far more confident.As a new young woman I felt I could take on the world. Quite differentfrom my old shy self with an inferiority complex.That evening at dinner I probed again. "Tell me Julia, after Bismark diedwhat did you do? I mean about the funeral etcetera."She looked uncomfortable. "Matt, I really don't want to talk about it. Ihate flying so I didn't go to Bangkok. I organised to have the bodycremated and the ashes sent here. We had a.