On the last day, okuri-dango (farewell rice dumplings) are offered to the spirit-guests to cheer their departure to the Meido - the mysterious celesti...al world of the dead.Rachel told me about how her grandmother made the okuri-dango out of two kinds of rice flour. I hadn't known there were kinds of rice flour. There's a lot I don't know. Two kinds of rice flours are used here. Jyoshinko is made from regular Japanese rice and Shirotomako from sweet or glutinous rice flour, mixed with a little. I can’t wait,’ Katie said with a smile. She knew she sounded naive and overly-friendly to Dr. Straus but she could not help herself. ‘Good,’ Maxwell said. There was a lingering pause between them two. Maxwell took in the entire aura of Katie. Maxwell couldn’t help but notice her beauty. He had not been with a woman since Paula. Women were not usually on his mind, even if he saw movie with a blonde-bombshell running around in a bikini. But as he looked at Katie he thought of how cute she was,. I was sweating. I looked across the floor of the van to see, about twenty inches away, a pair of lavender blue eyes glaring hatred from a mess of blonde hair, white frilly lace, and duct-tape. Then the van hit a pothole in the highway and waves of pain again swamped my consciousness.The Doc-he's a disbarred vet, really-asks no questions and accepts payment in small oils "in the manner of Stubbs". He confined me to bed for a week after seeing to my injuries.It took two before I was able to. It was still taping, so she figured it must have worked. She stopped the tape and set it to rewind.Laurie's stomach felt sick as she hooked up the camera to her TV. She needed to know what was on the tape, but she was also very afraid of what she would see. When the tape was done rewinding, she pressed play, and sat down on the bed to watch the tape.When the tape came on, it showed Laurie standing right in front of the camera from when she was arranging the pile of clothes on top of it, then.