‘It is my understanding that spending this kind of money entitles me to bore you with a few words. ‘Children can be a source of great pride and sa...tisfaction. Children can also suck the life out of you and make you regret that you failed to use contraception. Jeff was a child that made you realize that loving him meant never having to say you were sorry.’ As I looked around I wasn’t the only one finding this strange, though I thought Louis was probably having fun with us. ‘I remember his first. I knew it was wrong, I knew it was risky, but I did it anyway.”“Wow. How many times?”“About a dozen I think, Andy could tell you exactly.”“Thirteen, and the last time was unlucky. Maybe we should have stopped sooner.”“Why didn’t you go with her?”“Mum, I couldn’t have done that, it wasn’t about humiliating Andy, I would have felt terrible if he was there. If any of the men I met had known Andy was there, I know they would have mocked him. Maybe not all, but one would have been too many. I wasn’t. I am sure that if the cadets or the children at the table were attending a school on Earth, they would make things much more exciting or exasperating.I made an announcement but tried to phrase it as ordinary conversation. "Judith and Jorge's mother is currently in medical being repaired. We first met her at a time before I even first went to the moon. Everybody seemed to like her and I was asked to make her a wife. She will have some new talents that should make her a very valuable member of. Sgt. Haskall was temporarily assigned to the job formerly occupied by the deceased officer until a new man could be assigned to the fort.In conversations with various NCOs (Non-commissioned Officers), I pieced together a history for Sgt. Haskall. For one thing, Elija Haskall was not his real name, but I never found out what it was. He had been in the Confederate Army as a captain of cavalry, but he was destined never to rise so high in the US Army. He was here simply because he considered.