Christine returned his embrace with fervor. She had truly missed her son and his greeting brought a warm glow to her heart. Michael broke away from hi...s mother and looked at her face. They were wearing identical smiles."Its so good to see you again, sweetheart," Christine said."Its good to see you too," Michael responded. He looked his mom up and down, "Wow, you really look great Mom. Have you lost weight?" No silly," Christine was blushing at her son's compliment. She really had lost a few. "Alright, let's go eat so I don't have to sit around here and dwell onsomething I can never change," Kris said.Colt patted Kris on the shoulder, "That's my boy right there with one greatfucking ass."Kris smiled, "Colt's my boy that can really suck a dick. Matt, Colt couldgive you lessons when he gets hammered again." Matt doesn't need lessons," Corey laughed."Nope, I don't but I do enjoy practicing," I laughed."God, what have we done now?" Kris lamented.We laughed but did agree things had. As new knowledge came in to one mind, it would file it away like a good librarian should, but it would also tell the other librarians what it'd just done, providing them with the indexes in case they later wanted the knowledge.This was a large process (think of the number of indexes you have for all your memories, especially as every memory has multiple indexes!), so it took several weeks. It was also considerably complicated by a major event that occurred within that timeframe (which we'll get. Your father and I had hoped that you would get interested in learning about how to live here and learning how the animals live as well." Couldn't she go to the humane society?" What do you think happens to dogs that go there and that aren't adopted?" Idunno..." If they are not adopted within a short time they are put down. That means they are killed." Why do they do that?" Two reasons: first they can't afford to feed all the animals that are abandoned there, and second they don't have enough.