"He figured they would, and wondered what the AIs could come up with unleashed on this much recyclable mass.With a start, he realized that the roof ov...er the improvised countertop was the side of the bus that had been cut out, complete with bus windows for skylights. He couldn't see into the dark interior of the bus, but he thought he could hear someone shuffling around."Hello?" he called.A figure emerged, wearing coveralls that might have been blue once. The older man with a scraggly beard. Thank you for everything. To think we've worked together all this time and I never knew! Where, where, did you learn to shag like that?" Well," I replied sort-of truthfully, "it's just a gift." A gift? You're telling me! Mr Walker — sorry, James — I know a lot of people think I'm too free and easy and I admit I've had my share of boyfriends but never, never ever, have I had it like that! The second time you made me come... oooh!" She wriggled with pleasure at the memory. "It just kept washing. " Curtis, you've been up here awhile you say, can I ask you a question?" Of course." What are my daughter's prospects?" Oh ma'am with or without the Frazier's your Shay has all the things to get ahead. She smart, she don't take no hokum from anybody, she shows kindness to others and if I may say so without offending, she's pretty as a spring day." Shay covered her face,"Curtis, you embarrass me." Only speaking truth." That gives me comfort. Thank you."When they approached the house Lillian. Do you wish things had turned out differently? Or that we could have worked out at all?’ A light came on in his brain, and the tiny spring of hope inside him, which had been dormant for a while, began to well up a little. She had meant what he thought! ‘Of course I do,’ he replied. ‘We were such stupid kids. We had something really good–really special–but we were just too damn scared to go for it. We made excuses and let other things get in the way, until it was too late.’ Those had been more.