If she were your friend, it might be different, but she’s your ‘total stranger’.”Katy laughed, “You and your ‘Darmok’ style of speech! S...amuel L. Jackson in Die Hard 3, right?”“Very good! You win a cookie!” I said, affecting a certain speech pattern.“Don Rickles in Kelly’s Heroes!” Tom laughed. “One of my all-time favorite movies.”“Same here,” I said. “I love the theme song, too. Burning Bridges by The Mike Curb Congregation.”That song had spoken to me sixteen years previously, when I’d. "The paradise you imagine and which I invoke to comfort the dying is no paradise at all compared to the land I come from. Your paradise is a cold dry treeless plain, whereas the forest where I lived was warm, moist and full of trees. In comparison to the Southern forests, your small woodlands are nothing more than pitiful. The trees were alive with beautiful birds whose gorgeous feathers were more splendid than those of any ptarmigan or crane. Most animals that live there never venture to the. The doctor came in and told me that the surgery went very well, but I would have to stay in traction for a few days. "Doctor, can I see my family?" I asked."Yes, I will tell the nurse to let them in," he said.They all came in to see me. I hugged each one. I knew I had terrible breath, so I didn't kiss them. They sniffed and kissed me instead. "I wanted to kiss you, but I know I have terrible breath." Halitosis is better than no breath," Dawn laughed."That is the damn truth," I growled.Dawn. He sold them to everyone, the nerds to keep them up all night, to the jocks so they could be faster, stronger on the field, he even sold them urine kits so they could pass the drug test, he sold to the cheerleaders as well as the dance squads. What surprised me most was that he was also selling to the teachers.Henry took me under his wing, and by the end of the second year, I was just like him. That was the real world. Everyone had a nitch a saying Henry said, something they were really good.