Fifteen minutes later, she tapped on my door saying, "Jeff, what did I do? I don't want you mad at me, especially since I don't understand how you cou...ld be falling in love with me." Janie ... Mom, picture each of my last three girlfriends. What do they have in common?"Walking in, she answered, "Cute faces ... darling laughs and slim figures similar to mine..." it finally hit her. My girlfriends were near duplicates of my mom."Jeff, that's not my fault that you find me attractive. You're quite. People in the street stopped and scanned the horizon for rising smoke, but none appeared. ‘That sounded like a bomb,’ said Nick. ‘But there is no Abu Sayyaf here,’ said Blen. ‘There have been many bombs in Mindanao,’ said Amor. ‘I’ve been reading in the papers that there have been threats to target tourist areas,’ said Nick, ‘maybe they’ve begun.’ They scanned the horizon towards Balibago, but there was no telltale puff of smoke dissolving into the sky. The three continued on their walk,. .. shall we say, at odds right now." Yeah," she said, "I know about that."My eyebrows rose. "Come again?"She leaned forward on both elbows, and said, "Jeff, I don't want to embarrass you, but your windows were open last night." Oh, shit," I muttered. "I'll bet the whole neighborhood heard us. Shit..."She patted my hand, laughing lightly. "I don't think so," she said soothingly. "Your window," she pointed, "opens on this side of my house. I could hear what was being said, but not completely. "You might be right there, you just might be right!" Greeson said as he thought of everything that had happened over the last few months. Nodding his head more the young ranger was right he was far luckier than he had at first thought. _______________________________________________________ Mary was still unsure as she watched over both Kimison and Rayburn. They both seemed to be going through the motions with work. In reality Kimison hadn't achieved a.