father he couldn't do that when nobody could ever take my mother's place oh of course she won't richard bach one must never live completely in the  alone so long i guess you're right i know what you're thinking my boy you're puzzled a bit hurt you think of this almost as a betrayal a violation of a memory but it's not that lady in question this is a very great lady i met her a long time ago it may be a little difficult for you at first but i'm sure that before long you'll come to love her and respect her as your father  send you to one of the greek universities as well but father i want to come back to st francis i thought some day i could be one of you ah my boy i believe in you but you're young richard go into the world for a while you'll find many things there that are n everyone has been very kind to me that especially my sister i must tell you about her she swim class past a line to ask her i think ride like i c well not really like a convoy but very good she's teaching me to play golf and tennis oh i forgot to tell you she is twenty eight and she says herself that her mother always told her she should have been a boy i told her all about you and that you are a champion that you are a champion cr oh well you know you you may not want to well i read somewhere that a camera shows a woman's true weight which is at least fifteen pounds more than she admits i can see that you're going to be a great hit but the ladies like to eat little brother lady but i don't want them hanging around for but i'm all right not being a lady that it sure i don't mean that you're not a lady too it's just that you don't always away from my club of course not that's all i want to know  now i can feel myself becoming allergic that's just milk with a little flavoring it's not often that you find a college man acts like a man to get the girl had to practically carry a club that's why i like you you're sure you're all right too you minute i'd like to if you don't think i'm trying to be right i want you to say all doesn't make any difference whatever you've got but i'm not very good assume well maybe i'm not good enough for you after all me no time at all a lesson in what not to do gordon i should have you measured for silver handle i was i was going to practice your i told you could practice there you batiks but that didn't mean terminal velocity dive you say that the test pilot he's very pretty well i'm sorry i can't be here long enough to meet her visiting here down you know now she works richard richard for the moment let me be your friend not your father confessor is there some way i can help you now there's nothing to say and i think i can guess and you're right there's really nothing anyone and we have to go to this thing i feel like that i got an idea  you tell i'm sorry forgive me i feel well i had too much to drink to party and you're not angry with me not  all right i'll see you later i'm not interested in your sightseeing chillis you take me home or shall i call  look mary do me a favor the a good kid and wait inside with don't ask questions just wait inside for me and and i'll dance not even for myself he's always wanted he told me that first day came home and they friends and then after that things became so confused and distracted he held onto li deep down he's never changed you understand that i couldn't let him come to worse than that he was not  attempt peace this time i know beyond any question