He walked ahead as Leslie held Becky behind the glass doors. When he turned, Leslie released Becky, who’d been prepped how to respond. She spun the ...revolving door and rushed Eric, who laughed and knelt, opening his arms. She launched herself at him. He caught her, spinning her around as she giggled, her mother following. She and her brother hugged, a tear-provoking scene. The press team they gave the exclusive to ate it up.The other NASA members were waiting in the limousine while Daniel and. I just admitted that to myself. Do you understand? I think that the feeling of a lack of control just let me be more myself. I don't know how to explain it, but ... I am totally ok with things." She paused, and then confidently said, "yes, the more I think of it, the more that I know that I am totally ok with things. And ... daddy ... I want you to keep 'making' me do things," she pleaded.Holy shit! A light bulb finally went off in my head. This was Jennifer, telling me that her father had. Well, she stomped around, rantin' n' ravin' for the longest time but I wasn't gonna change my mind. She finally accepted it.That spring, we went to the John Deere dealer in Watonga and made a deal on some used farm machinery and I spent the weekends plowin' Beth's fields, puttin' in corn and beans. After I graduated, farmin' was my full time job.Beth didn't pout about it or nothin'. Once she figured I wasn't gonna budge, she pitched in and made sure I done the job right. She learned about. But these folks worked out of offices. Had regular hours and didn’t smell of stale beer and desperation. They were easy to tell apart. The legitimate brokers carried cards, not knives.I am ex-FN Captain Henry Sullivan. A cashiered and exiled remnant of the Earth/Luna war. When hostilities had ceased, and the parties involved had come to a mutually agreeable cease-fire. The FN had provisionally reopened the trade routes. There had also been the not unexpected reductions in naval forces. In those.