Katy kept looking at me in wonder. I knew she hadn'trealized what I was doing because she seemed to be confused."Remember what I wrote on your CD?" I ...asked her while continuing to pullpins out."Yes," she replied with a smile. "'You're the best friend I never knew Ihad'," she stated what I had written on the CD cover I had signed forher."Do you believe that?" I asked her. She tilted her head to the side for amoment as she tried to come up with an answer, but the look in her eyestold me that she. "Hey uncle Cal?" Yuh?" I didn't open my eyes, I was a bit sleepy and wanted to keep it going in that direction."Is it okay if I ask you something?" She sounded a bit shy now."You don't have to ask to ask, I'm all ears." Why does my mommy look different from me?" You look the same." I don't have boobs, or the other thing." Hmm?" I opened my eyes."A vagina, I don't have a vagina." I don't look like my mother either, and I don't have a vagina, but I know she's my mom." She was silent for a moment,. “Oh, there’s plenty of sex that goes on in this place!” Amy laughed. “We have several regulars like that lawyer from New York who brings his mistress here. One day I want to do a special promotion where I send a flyer with their picture to the lawyer’s house, addressed to Mrs. Lawyer!”“That might not be the wisest idea,” I grinned, “Poking the bear often has bad results! And the last thing you want is a reputation that you invade people’s privacy.”“But still ... cheating.”“Is between him and. I wanted to cry, I tried to cry, but there were no tears. There should have been more, somehow. I didn’t know what there should be more of, but this felt oddly underwhelming. When you find out you’re not going to live out the year, it should be bigger, met with more ceremony. My world was ending, and I could still hear the traffic from the street and the muzak over the speakers.Staring at the wall, I waited for the doctor to return.There was a knocking and then he entered. “Gordon, I can get.