”I held still, and she straightened my tie. Then, she brushed a little dander from the shoulder of my jacket.“You look nice in a tuxedo.”“Than...k you.”“Well you do. We should dress you up more often.”“You’ll get at least one other chance after this.”“Mmmmmm! I can hardly wait for that, but I think we ought to find other excuses.”I shook my head with a goofy grin plastered all over it.“You ever think that we’d reach this point,” I asked.“Right from the very start.” The organist switched to the. Sandy learned that Merry was a schoolteacher from Atlanta and was in the Georgia National Guard to help pay off the student loans she'd run up.Later that evening, as Sandy lay in bed, she reflected how grateful she was to have a normal, everyday person like Merry in the midst of the upheaval around her. Smiling, she was thinking of Ben when sleep claimed her.22:10 Friday, August 2nd, 1991Ft Benning, GASandy was glad she'd chosen to go back to Huachuca before going to PLDC, and hadn't taken the. His hands grabbed at the empty void in his crotch as he tried to scream. His hands suddenly ceased to work. Any movement he made with them seemed useless. As he raised his hands to his face, he gasped in horror as each finger slowly pulled inward on itself and into the stump of his wrist. Running to the mirror he could see that his arms were slowing disappearing into the sockets of his shoulders. Crying helplessly, he watched as the stumps of his hands retreated in to his torso. A burning. Polly had warned her accordingly.She cleaned up, adjusted her dress and fixed her makeup. She did not expect that Dr Stephen Mortlock esq would see her to the door and she was correct. He had however left a five pound note on the hall table, which she rightly assumed was hers and she stuffed it in her purse.She opened the door and saw her car waiting and with profuse relief she lit a cigarette and stepped onto the pavement to in order to leave Dr Stephen Mortlock’s abode and retire to her own.