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“So, Will, how was your computer course? Who were some of the people running it?” Jack asked me.

We had just cast off from the Earle’s jetty on our way up to the sailing club, to arrive in style for the ball. I was wearing a dinner suit, actually my father’s suit, since the ball was “formal”. I had spent over half an hour practising tying the bow tie so it looked correct, and I had a matching black silk cummerbund around my waist. Jack was dressed in a dinner suit as well, and Chris and Lori were dressed to the nines. Chris had a long black dress, but Lori was wearing a very fancy emerald green dress; low cut at the front, and cut even lower at the back. I had given her a soft wolf whistle when she came out of her room, and I told her how beautiful she looked; which made her blush, but she did look pleased.

When she took my hand as we walked down the steps to the boat, I felt warm inside; I was really looking forward to being at the ball with her. I wasn’t really sure what it would be like; Lori had said it was mainly presenting the various prizes and trophies for the season, and then there would be some dancing, lots of talking, drinking, and things like that. The dancing, and some of the other parts of the evening sounded good, but the drinking – I reminded Lori of our night at Castle Lagoon and the carton of beer.

She had laughed when I reminded her of that night, and she promised that we could have a good night at the ball without having to drink too much.

“Did you get to meet Murray Allen?” Jack asked. “He’s a good guy, knows his stuff, and some of the other professors there are pretty smart, too.”

“Yes, I met him, and talked to him about studying there next year,” I answered. “The main people running the course were Phil McCrea and Paul Baker, though.”

“I haven’t met them, but I mainly deal with the communications types,” he said.

Lori and I wandered out to the stern of the boat to look at the lights on the shore going past us.

“So, is Hannah going to study there next year, too?” she asked.

“Probably not,” I replied. “She was saying that she will be going to Germany, to visit her family, and travel around with Jenny. She might even stay there and go to Uni over there.”

“Hmm, her and Jenny,” Lori said. “I have my suspicions about them, do you think that they are, you know, together? As lovers, I mean.”

So Lori had suspicions that Hannah and Jenny being a couple? I didn’t want to break the confidence with Hannah.

“Lori, how would I know that?” I replied. “I mean, I don’t keep up with all the gossip, and you know I don’t spread things around. From what Hannah said, they both have relatives over there; Hannah in Germany, and Jenny in Denmark, so it seems logical that they would go together.”

“Well, I think there is more to them than just friendship,” Lori said. “Not that I am saying there is anything wrong with that, you know me. I was just curious, that’s all.”

I decided to let it drop, Hannah had trusted me with a lot of personal stuff; things she hadn’t told anyone else, and I didn’t want to break that trust. It wasn’t that I didn’t trust Lori to keep things secret, but I had promised Hannah not to tell anyone.

As we rounded the point at the leading to the main part of the bay in Newport, we felt the cold wind; Lori shivered and put her arms around herself. I stood behind her and put my arms around her shielding her from the wind. She folded her arms on top of mine, and squeezed my hands.

“You are good at keeping me warm,” she said. “We could go back inside, but it’s nicer standing here with you like this.”

We stood out there watching the view go past until we were almost at the clubhouse; Jack called out to me to put the fenders out on the port side, so he could pull alongside the dock. As he eased the boat up to the dock, I jumped ashore, and tied the front mooring line around the bollard, pulling the boat securely to the dock. I tied off the aft line, and then helped Chris and Lori ashore. Jack then handed me the coolers with our drinks, and then he came ashore too.

I had to admit, it was a great way to arrive at the club for the ball. There were already quite a few others there, some of whom I recognised, and several called out to us as we walked across the rigging deck. We climbed up the stairs to the main room; there were a number of tables set out for everyone, and the room had been decorated with balloons and coloured ribbons. We found our table, we were sitting with Don and his wife, and two other couples who I didn’t know.

I was beginning to feel a little out of place, although I recognised a few of the people around us, they were all talking sailing talk; things I had very little idea of what they were even meaning, let along be able to contribute to the conversations. Fortunately, Lori stood with me, first holding my hand, then putting her arm around me; and holding me close to her.

After a while, we were all told to find our way to our seats, as the food was about to be served. I was introduced to the other couples at our table; David and Phyll Lyall, and Norm and Wendy Field, who I remembered from the previous times I had been sailing with Lori. Once everyone was seated, we went up, a table at a time, to get our food. It wasn’t that bad; a choice of roast beef or chicken, with all the trimmings and side dishes.

When we had all finished eating, and the plates had been cleared away, it was time for giving out the awards. Ron, the commodore, officiated, and began by giving the awards for first, second and third in the various races series. Don won two awards, first in one of the series, and third in another. Jack and Lori were both pleased, particularly when Don called them up to stand with him to hold the trophy, and have their photos taken as his crew members.

Then it was time for the major awards, there were two awards for the fastest yacht over all of the series – one for the outright, or “scratch” times, and the other for handicap times. Finally, Ron announced a new award that was being inaugurated this year, and called upon one of the Club’s original members to join him.

An older woman came up to the front, and Ron introduced her as Gwen Ifould, who for several years in the late 1930’s and 1940’s sailed with the club, and went on to win some Australian championships.

“I am honoured that the Club has created an award in my name,” she said. “When I started sailing, there were several of us girls who raced with the boys; and no one really made a big deal of it, not up here on Pittwater. But elsewhere, we met a lot of resistance from the sailing ‘establishment’ at the time; at least until we started winning some championships.

“But it has always been harder for women to get taken seriously in our sport,” she continued. “Which is sad, many promising girls drop out before they have a chance to achieve their full potential, and to get the enjoyment and recognition that they deserve. So when Ron asked me if I would give my name to a new award, the ‘Gwen Ifould Trophy for the Champion Female Sailor’, I was more than pleased, I saw it as a way to give encouragement to those girls, those women who might otherwise give up. Now, the inaugural winner of this lovely trophy is someone who everyone would agree is not just the best woman sailor in the club, but probably the one of our young members with the greatest potential to go on to bigger and better things.”

“Most of you know about her achievements here, but some of you may not know that she has led her high school to victory in the last two Combined High School’s sailing competitions, and is now racing off shore in a competitive boat, and will be making her first trip to Hobart this summer.”

Lori’s jaw dropped, and she grabbed my hand, squeezing it tightly.

“It can’t be me!” she whispered, incredulously.

“I would like you all to stand and congratulate the Club’s champion woman sailor, Lori Earle,” she said, looking towards us.

Lori stood up, amazed, and walked slowly to where Gwen was standing with the trophy. We all stood and applauded her; I could tell this was a very popular choice among all of the other club members.

She was lost for words; she started to say something, but stopped, choking up. Eventually she composed herself, wiped her eyes, and addressed everyone.

“Wow, this is, this is such an honour, I never dreamed, never expected I would get anything like this,” she said. “There are so many people here who have encouraged me, who had helped me, and taught me, who have help me get to where I am. Sailing with Don and my Father has been great, I have learned so much from them; but also many others here – David and Norm, when they taught a bunch of us in the junior division, and the others I sailed with and raced against then.”

She paused, and looked around, and gathered her thoughts.

“While there have are other places and clubs that I sail at, this club – Avalon – has to be one of the friendliest and most supportive places around. This has to be the best sailing club on the planet!”

Everyone clapped and cheered, and Lori gave Gwen a kiss on the cheek, and made her way back to our table. Her parents hugged and kissed her, as did Don. When she sat down next to me, I leant over to congratulate her.

“You really deserve that award, Lori,” I said in her ear. “I’m really proud of you, and I can now say I’ve sailed with a champion sailor.”

I leant closer to kiss her cheek, but she turned her face slightly, and I kissed her full on the lips. I hadn’t meant to, but before I could pull back, her lips parted slightly, and I felt her tongue touch my lips. Without thinking, I parted my lips, and our tongues touched briefly, before she pulled away.

“I didn’t expect that,” she whispered. “But thank you, thank you so much.”

The touch of her tongue stirred my prick; I could feel it starting to stiffen, and I quickly adjusted the crotch of my pants and made sure my prick wouldn’t bulge out if I got more erect. Lori saw what I was doing, and smiled as she touched my hand.

“Did I do something to you,” she whispered in my ear. “Can I help adjust him?”

She smiled at me, and kissed my cheek.

“At least it isn’t obvious with me,” she whispered.

“Have you looked down at your breasts?” I replied.

Her nipples were hard, or at least something was pushing out her dress in those two locations. Not that her nipples made the typical pointy little impressions in her top; because of the way her whole areola would swell up, it was more like two “bumps” over the top of her breasts. I suddenly had the desire to suck them, to take them in my mouth.

“It’s just cold in here, that’s all,” she said, clearly lying; with all the people in the room, it was pleasantly warm.

The awards part of the evening was over, so I suggested to Lori we go outside on the balcony to get some fresh air. I was hoping that the cooler air might take the edge of my ‘growing’ arousal. There wasn’t much chance of that, however. As soon as I was leaning on the balcony looking out over the dark bay, Lori stood at my side, half behind me, and put her arms around me. I could feel a breast pressing against my back, and she kissed the back of my neck.

“Are you really proud of me for the award?” she asked. “It probably doesn’t mean much to people not involved in sailing.”

“Well, I can appreciate how hard you’ve worked to get where you are, and I am really proud of you.” I replied. “I don’t know much about sailing, but I do know you are good; very good.”

“And good at sailing, too?” she said, and quickly reached down to press her hand to my prick.

“Lori!” I hissed. “Not out where everyone can see us!”

“No one is out here, and the windows are covered,” she whispered her reply. “I like to see just how ‘proud’ you are.”

“Well, you’ve seen that before,” I replied. “What if someone comes out and sees us?”

“They won’t,” she said, still rubbing my prick through my pants. “It’s dark back here.”

“No, Lori, not here, later maybe,” I said firmly, taking her hand in mine and pulling it away from my crotch. “It sounds like they are starting the music; we can go back inside and dance if you want.”

“Only if you promise to hold me close, so I can feel you against me,” she said. “I’ll even let you look down my top at my tits,” she added, smiling. “It makes me feel all warm inside when I know you are looking at me like that. I don’t like it when other guys perve at me, but I love it when you do. It’s not that I’m self-conscious; we’ve been going to nudist places for years; but most of the people there are respectful, and don’t leer the way some guys do. You can look at me anytime, you know. Besides, I like the effect my body has on you.”

“You are worth looking at – anytime, Lori,” I replied. “And I will discreetly look down your top at your tits, since you were so kind to invite me.”

“They are all yours,” she whispered as we re-entered the main room.

We spent the next hour dancing, and I kept my part of the bargain, holding Lori close most of the time. Actually, there wasn’t a lot of room in the clubhouse for all the people and the tables, so the dancing was more like holding each other really close, and swaying in time to the music, and moving to avoid the other couples. I did get lots of glimpses of her breasts; at least her lovely nipples, and several times she would squeeze me tighter as she noticed me peeking.

“You like them?” she whispered on one occasion.

“Lovely,” I replied.

“They are very tasty, too, if you want to sample later,” she added.

Unsurprisingly, my prick stayed fairly erect all the time, particularly as our bodies were pressed hard together. I knew she could feel my prick pressed against her groin, and several times she would deliberately rub her body against me there. She was probably as turned on as I was; her areolas were completely swollen and puffed out, with her nipples protruding from that lovely pink skin. I really wanted to take her up on her offer to taste them, against my better judgement.

All too soon, people started leaving. Dancing with Lori was really enjoyable; there was something about the closeness; not just the physical closeness, but there was an emotional closeness that felt really good. At times, she would rest her head on my shoulder, and she would press her lips lightly to my neck.

Once most of the people had left, others started to clean up – clearing away the tables and chairs, and carrying out the rubbish. Jack and Chris headed back to their boat, but Lori pulled me back towards the balcony.

“Can we wait out here for half an hour or so?” she asked. “I know what they will probably do as soon as they are in their cabin and the sounds, well, I don’t want to have to listen to them, and my mother gets pretty vocal at times.”

It took a few seconds to realize what she was saying,

“You mean, they are going to...” I started to say.

“Didn’t you see the look on Mum’s face as she led Dad away?” she replied. “I’ve seen that look before; remember, my bedroom is right next to theirs at home. I’m sort of used to it now, but when we first moved in, and I realised what they were doing, well...”

“Yeah, I guess we don’t like to imagine our parents actually having sex,” I replied, although I had never heard my parents in the act.

“It’s not just hearing them, I guess there’s nothing wrong with knowing they have sex, I mean, they have to have done it at least twice, you know,” she said. “Actually, I think it’s great that after all the time they’ve been married, they are still attracted that way to each other. You know they will have been married for twenty-five years in September?”

“Wow, my parents have not quite reached twenty years,” I replied. “I guess that’s good they still love each other like that.”

“Anyway, it’s not the fact that I know they are having sex,” she continued.

She paused for a few seconds, and looked around.

“As I said, Mum gets pretty, um, vocal, when she is, well, put it this way, I know how many times Dad makes her come, and how, and what positions she wants,” she said. “I shouldn’t really tell you, but she love it doggy style. I’m sure she doesn’t realise that her voice carries through the walls. It’s not just her words, but she moans really loudly when she comes.”

“Like someone else I know,” I added, smiling at her. “Like mother, like daughter, I guess.”

“Oh, I didn’t realise I did that,” she said. “Does that embarrass you, I mean, where we were doing things like that? Do I really moan out loud?” I nodded. “And say things, telling you what I want?” I nodded again.

“Explicitly,” I added.

“Oh, God, that’s so embarrassing,” she said. “I’ve never realised that I was just like her, it’s just that I get so, well, so...”

She paused for a brief time.

“You get me so fucking turned on, I just lose control when I am with you sometimes,” she said, looking me right in the eyes. “When we were together, I couldn’t think of anything else, just what you were doing, the pleasure ... Even sometimes now, when we are together, not necessarily doing anything, you get me turned on, I can feel myself getting so wet.

“I really shouldn’t tell you all that, should I?” she continued. “I mean, here we are, about to share the main cabin, sleeping together, and we can’t do anything, we can’t start that again, not at the moment. Fuck, I’m hopeless,” she cursed at herself. “Why did I tell you all that, tonight of all nights? I shouldn’t have had so much to drink, you must think I’m desperate or something, trying to lead you on...”

Her voice trailed off, and she put her head in her hands. I put my arm around her shoulders, and held her close to me. I didn’t think Lori had drunk all that much, maybe she had just reacted to the same closeness that I had felt while we had been dancing? For a brief second, I wondered if Hannah had spoken to her about what had happened over the last few days.

Did Hannah tell Lori to stop putting things off with me? But how would she have brought that up? I didn’t really understand, except that Lori was still undecided; wanting us to go further, to get our relationship back, but scared about what might happen.

My thoughts were interrupted when Lori stood up.

“I’m sorry Will, I guess I’ve just been a bit overwhelmed by the evening, getting the trophy, all of it,” she said. “Do you want to go down to the rigging deck, look at the water until it’s safe to go on the boat?”

“Sure, let’s do that,” I said, taking her hand.

Everyone had left the clubhouse by now, and it was dark inside. We made our way slowly to the stairs, and I led the way down, feeling for each step carefully – the stairs down to the rigging deck were steep and narrow, and I didn’t want to trip. Lori was right behind me, holding onto my shoulders.

We found two chairs, and sat out on the deck. The sky was dark; the moon hadn’t risen yet, but the stars were clearly visible. Lori wrapped her arms around her shoulders; and I realised she must be cold out here; her dress didn’t cover all that much. I took my jacket off, and placed it around her shoulders.

“Thank you, it is getting cold out here,” she said, and squeezed my hand. “At least it will be warm in bed on the boat.”

I smiled, and put an arm around her.

“I love the bay here,” she said. “When we lived in Virginia, we were very close to the water there, too, Chesapeake Bay, which is huge, about three hundred k’s long, I think. That’s where I first went sailing; we had a boat there and would go out most weekends, with my grandparents when Dad was in Vietnam. But it’s not like here, with all the natural bushland, and the hidden little places. There’s a lot of places I want to explore with you, further up the river, too.”

“So you’ve been sailing since you were really young?” I asked.

“Ever since I could remember,” she replied. “My grandparents had been sailing on the bay for years and years, and Dad was taught to sail by Paw-paw; my grandfather. They use to race together, too, before Dad joined the Navy, and did some longer races, too. At one time, before Mum and Dad were married, I think, they all sailed a boat down to Florida.

“My grandfather was a really good sailor, well, he still sails a lot, but not racing any more, they still have a boat on the bay there. I can still remember as a little girl, him teaching me how to tie knots, read the wind from the surface of the water, look at the shape of sails to trim them properly.”

“I’m sure he will be really proud of you when he hears of your award,” I said. “I’m really proud of you too, Lori, you are a great sailor.”

“He will be pleased, I’ll have to tell him tomorrow night,” she said. “You know, you could easily be a good sailor, too, you pick things up quickly, we would make a great team.”

“Me? Sailing?” I replied, very surprised. “I know hardly anything about sailing; the times I have gone with you I’ve just done what you or Don told me to.”

“You would pick it up quickly,” she said. “You’ve got the strength and stamina; you showed that the other month doing all that spinnaker work, you are smart, you learn quickly. And you look damn sexy just wearing a pair of shorts, although you do distract me like that.”

We both laughed at her comments.

“But seriously,” she continued. “After the exams are over, you could sail with me every Sunday and maybe even next year you could go in the Hobart race with me? What do you think?”

“I don’t know, Lori,” I replied. “After the HSC, we could do that, but I don’t know about next year, once Uni starts. But we can try it, I guess. I don’t know about Hobart though, I mean, I might get seasick and all that.”

“Well, promise me you will think seriously about it?” she said. “During the long holiday time form when school ends, and before we have to start Uni, we could go sailing during the week, too; I’m sure Don would let us take his boat out whenever we wanted to. Anyway, I think it’s safe to go back on the boat now, they have probably finished and are sleeping.”

All seemed quiet when we go to the boat, and I helped Lori on board. She handed me my jacket, and turned on the light above the main settee, which had already been dropped down to form a double bed. I assumed Lori would be sleeping there, and I would have the smaller settee on the other side of the cabin.

I was half undressed when Lori asked me to help her.

“Can you get this zip undone for me?” she asked. “There some little catch at the top, and I can’t seem to get it open.”

“Ok, let me have a look at it,” I replied.

It was hard to see clearly; the light wasn’t all that good, but there was a tiny little loop of cotton with a miniscule hook at the top of the zipper holding the two parts of the back of the dress together, most probably to make sure the zip at the back didn’t accidentally come loose. I unhooked the catch, and then lowered the zipper. With that undone, I slid the straps off her shoulders, and Lori turned to face me. She smiled and let the dress slip down, exposing her breasts and stomach completely, then eased it over her hips, letting it fall to the floor. She stepped out of it, then removed her panties.

“Lovely,” I said softly.

“Better than the little peeks you have been getting all evening?” she asked.

Lori sat on the edge of the bed, and removed her shoes, then hung her dress up properly. I finished getting undressed and hung my suit up too.

“It would be nice to be able sleep naked,” she whispered to me. “But probably not tonight.”

She took out a dark track suit from her back, and pulled that on. I found a pair of shorts and a tee shirt and did the same, then put my sleeping bag on the single bunk.

“You don’t have to sleep over there, silly,” she said, lying back on the main bed. “This is where we are to sleep.”

“But your parents?” I started to say.

“As long as we are dressed, they won’t worry,” Lori replied. “They are assuming we would sleep together, and if they came out; which I doubt they would; and saw us in separate beds, they would be a bit disappointed. Come on, get in with me; we can just lie together.”

I turned out the light, and got into the bed next to Lori. I wasn’t quite sure how she wanted me to lie there, either snuggled up to her, or for us to remain separated, so I just stayed on my back, my hand just touching her arm. I must have made the right choice, because she moved her hand to hold mine.

“Thanks for the lovely evening, Will, and being with me, and all that,” she said. “Sleep well, and have lovely dreams.”

“You too, my champion sailor,” I replied, and squeezed her hand.

“Lovely dreams indeed,” I said to myself. “She has to know what I will be dreaming of, and it will take all my control to keep them to just dreams.”

For My Lady

Sunday May 18, 1975

It was just starting to get light outside when I woke up; I was still on my back, but I had an arm around Lori’s shoulder, and she was lying with her head on my shoulder. Somehow, her tracksuit top had become pushed up around her shoulders, and my hand was cupping one of her breasts. At least the blankets were covering us, just in case Lori’s parents had come out of their cabin.

I started to move my hand from her breast, but she stirred, and pressed my hand back against her there.

“Look at ... anytime,” she mumbled. “Tasty ... they are ... yours ... like you looking at them.”

Her nipples were swollen and erect, and I instinctively rubbed my thumb over the puffy areola. She sighed softly, and nestled her face against my neck. I could feel my prick getting hard, and I wanted to move down to kiss and suck that lovely nipple, but that would probably lead to things that were better not done right at the moment. I let myself be content with just caressing her breast and feeling her nipple.

“Love you touching ... making them swell ... love you to suck...” she continued mumbling, probably dreaming about us.

I closed my eyes, imagining how it would feel to be sucking that swollen, puffy nipple again. My prick was fully erect now, and somehow Lori’s hand had shifted, and was resting there, her fingers curled over my shaft. I hear her sigh softly, and she then pushed her hand inside my shorts, and held my prick, gently rubbing my knob as I rubbed her nipple.

It felt really good having Lori touch my prick like that; it was quite different from stroking the shaft, and she was gentle enough with the sensitive knob for it not to be unbearably intense. I had my eyes closed, enjoying the sensations, until I realised I was getting rather close to coming. I should stop her, take her hand away, before...

Too late, I was too slow to react. I felt that unstoppable surge of warmth, the muscles around my prick contracted, I groaned softly – and a big, hot spurt of come blasted out of my prick, all over Lori’s fingers. I heard her sigh, and she moved her hand to cover my knob, and stroked my shaft again.

I squeezed her breast as I spurted several times, each one stronger than the last. I was shaking form the pleasure, and she squeezed my prick harder, and kept stroking until I had finished coming. I could feel a big sticky patch of wetness on my stomach, and I pushed the covers back so they wouldn’t get any stains on them.

Lori shifted, and pushed my shorts down, leaving my softening prick and the pool of come exposed. She licked her fingers clean, and then kissed me.

“I didn’t mean to do that,” she said softly. “I was dreaming about us, and I guess I just, well...”

She ran a finger through a big glob of my come, and then licked it from her fingertip.

“But no sense in wasting it, is there?” she smiled.

She leant over and slowly licked my prick and stomach clean, then placed her lips around my soft prick, and sucked gently.

“I don’t know what to say, Lori,” I said. “That was a lovely way to wake up, but...”

“Yeah, I know, I shouldn’t have done that, should I?” I’m not being all that fair to you, I’m sorry. I won’t do that again, I promise, not until we are, well, you know...”

She sat up on the bed, and pulled her top back down, covering her lovely breasts. I tried not to look at them, and had to make a conscious effort not to glance between her legs to see if there was a damp spot on her track pants. I was sure she was pretty damp, but I didn’t want to take things further.

“Shall we have a shower?” she asked. “We can go up to the clubhouse, I’ll get the hot water turned on. Besides, Mum and Dad will probably be waking up soon, and, well, we don’t need to be around to hear them.”

I rolled out of the bed, and pulled my shorts back up. I was still a bit sticky there, but the shower would fix that. I grabbed my bag and waited while Lori got her things together.

“You know, it was your fault I did that to you then,” she said as we entered the clubhouse. “Me rubbing you, I mean.”

“My fault!” I exclaimed. “You were the one stroking me.”

“But you had your hand on my boob, rubbing my nipple, you know that turns me on,” she said. You could have stopped doing that.”

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The Three Signs Book 4 LisaChapter 27 Back at University

On Saturday, we had all gathered in the studio for a planning session and rehearsal for the new album. Phil had invited several others, DonWalker and Ian Moss (ex-Cold Chisel), I had invited Mike Franz, and Mary Beth had invited Chrissy Amphlette. Don had brought his Yamaha DX7 synthesizer and a Yamaha Clavinova electronic piano, Ian had a Fender amp and two of his guitars and Mike had a Yamaha stage organ. After a bit of shuffling equipment around, we had room for everyone; although we were...

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The Three Signs Book 2 LoriChapter 32 Another Year Ends

There was only another five weeks of classes before the end of the semester; well, before the study break that led into the exams that would be the end of the semester. We all found that time had a habit of shrinking; at the start of each semester, the end of the semester and the exams seemed so distant ... but before we realized it, there was only a matter of weeks left; and a pile of assignments and projects to complete. Having David, Claire and even Garry living next door made the study...

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The Three Signs Book 2 LoriChapter 42 University Ends

I had already planned my work schedule for my thesis; the date that the completed documents had to be submitted to the Faculty’s review committee were fixed, so I worked back from that date. I would have to work out the best way to produce the master copy of the thesis; I could always use Lori’s electric typewriter; but I thought it might be worthwhile playing around with the troff / nroff document processing software we had on the Unix system here. One of the PhD students was writing a...

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The Three Signs Book 1 CathyChapter 6 Getting an AllOver Tan

Thursday dawned clear and sunny, and promised to be another hot summer’s day. I decided to start with some laps of the pool before breakfast, and swam about forty laps – maybe half a kilometre – and went inside to eat. After breakfast, I grabbed the things that I would need for the day; towel, sun cream, some cold drinks, and lunch, and put them in my backpack. Around ten minutes before eight, I got on my bike, and headed towards Cathy’s place. I was full of apprehension; while the thought...

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The Three Signs Book 4 LisaChapter 47 Service NSW

When I woke up, I gathered some documents to show to John about how we would tackle the project. My main aim with today’s meeting was ‘project qualification’, that is, to get more details about John’s requirements, what were the key deliverables and results that he wanted to see, plus some feeling on what was he felt was a reasonable budget and timeframe for the project. I was also wanting to get some idea about how the project would run; what accommodation would be provided, would there be...

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The Three Signs Book 2 LoriChapter 4 Moving on Out

We woke up with the alarm; made love, had a shower together, then ate breakfast before we drove into Surry Hills and the recording studio. When we reached the studio; I parked at the side in the loading area, and went inside looking for George. We found him in the administration office, speaking with a brunette. “Hey, Will, good to see ya, Mate,” he said. “And this is...” he asked, looking at Lori. “You remember my girlfriend, Lori?” I said to him. “Of course, I remember now. Will, here’s...

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The Three Signs Book 4 LisaChapter 25 WTM Consulting

The lead up to the end of the semester was busy – really busy. Not only did we have to get ready for the contract with Alexa’s company, preparing the ‘Banksia Room’ as our computer staging area, tweaking the training notes from the university to suit the contract, but there were examinations to prepare for – not that I had any, the last two ‘Science and Society’ subjects had their assessments based on the assignments and class work. But I still had to vet the papers, make sure the questions...

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The Three Signs Book 1 CathyChapter 36 I Got You Babe

It was late on Saturday morning when I woke up, still feeling down in the dumps. I looked at the clock next to me bed; 9:30 am. I guessed Cathy would already be on the road; they wanted an early start, getting to Goulburn for lunch, and then on to Canberra by early afternoon. She hoped to get everything up in her dorm room before dinner time. I deliberately averted my eyes from the photo of her on my desk; the fact that it was Valentine’s Day didn’t make me feel any better. After a quick...

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The Three Signs Book 2 LoriChapter 22 Off to the Race

It took a while for us to wake up on Christmas morning, by the time we had all cast off our sleep it was close to eight; leaving little time before the others arrived for some yule-tide fucking. Just enough time to have a shower, and start to prepare things for breakfast. Lori had suggested we make pancakes; scrambled eggs, toast, coffee and her ‘home fries’. After we had finished our showers, I started to prepare the potatoes for the home fries; peeling them, dicing them, and chopping up...

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The Three Signs Book 1 CathyChapter 33 Performances Part 2

After our early morning love-making, shower and breakfast, I dropped Cathy off at the bus stop. She wasn’t sure just how late she would be working, and I suggested that she let me know maybe 45 minutes before she was due to finish, and I could drive in and pick her up, to save dealing with the night time buses. At Mike’s, we started talking about the actual sets we would play. “We want to start off with something to really get them going,” Mike said. “Something to kick them in the balls, so...

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The Three Signs Book 4 LisaChapter 10 Party Party Party

Thursday night we were having a Thanksgiving dinner at Mary Beth’s suggestion; instead of a complete turkey, which would have been far too much food even for the seven of us, she had baked two large turkey breasts in the oven. Patrick had helped, making some traditional side dishes, a green bean casserole, and somehow he had found a source of candied yams. As we sat around the dinner table, Mary Beth spoke to us all. “Well, I know Thanksgiving isn’t really an Australian tradition, but it is...

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The Three Signs Book 4 LisaChapter 29 ChCh Changes

With the New Year’s Eve only a few days away, we spent the Saturday afternoon reviewing the set lists for that gig. We had been asked to play for a total of four hours – well, four fifty minute sets, with a ten minute break between them. Then at midnight, we would lead everyone in singing ‘Auld Lang Syne’, then play a final thirty minute set before calling it a night. It was going to be a pretty intense, tiring evening, and right after that we would have to travel to Gosford for the first...

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The Three Signs Book 4 LisaChapter 44 Unexpected Results

We pulled up in the car park for Lilianfels, it was more in Katoomba itself than Leura, close to Echo Point lookout and the Three Sisters. It wasn’t all that far from some of the other scenic lookouts over the Jamison Valley, or some fairly energetic walks, including the ‘Giant Stairway’, some 800 or so steps descending into the valley. There were some more leisurely walks, including one around the cliff top to the ‘scenic railway’, and Katoomba falls, or the other way to the Leura Cascades....

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The Three Signs Book 2 LoriChapter 23 Welcome to Gresham Terrace

“Mr. Morris, glad to see you’re awake and back with us. I am Doctor David Pickett, and I’m one of the cardiologists here at the Prince of Wales hospital. I guess you’re wondering what it was that happened to you? First, I need to make sure you understand just how the human heart works; it’s basically a pump whose purpose is to circulate blood around the body.” I nodded; that was pretty basic human anatomy. “The blood carries oxygen and nutrients to the rest of the body, and also carries...

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The Three Signs Book 2 LoriChapter 34 Murder and Music

Lori was overjoyed to have us back home; as was Tracy. Even though we tried to be quiet, we woke them as we got into bed. Despite being tired, we made love, and then I slept soundly until nine in the morning. I would have preferred to have gone back to sleep, but I had to get across to the university to enrol. I grabbed a quick breakfast, got my organizer folder from the study, and drove across to the University. I parked behind the Electrical Engineering building, and went up to Professor...

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The Three Signs Book 3 JanelleChapter 9 Engagement and

After a busy few weeks filled with gigs most nights of the week, it was back at University. The fibre optic installation was proceeding; there had been a few minor issues, but the company supplying and installing the cable had worked around them. The University – mainly through the School of Physics – had a long term relationship with Crown Corning; they had worked together on a number of projects, particularly in developing reliable connectors for their single mode fibre. The first set of...

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The Three Signs Book 4 LisaChapter 1 Joining the Australia Dream

“Hey, Will. Paul Ramos here,” the voice on the phone said. “I guess you’re at home at the moment, I called your office at the University, but that cute short girl in your office said you weren’t in over the summer break.” “Paul, comrade. Great to hear from you,” I replied. “No, I’m taking a couple of weeks off; we’ve got a bunch of gigs heading up to Christmas, and into January too. So, to what do I owe the pleasure?” “I’ve got a proposal I’d like to discuss with you; are you going to be...

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Netherworld School Book 1 Prologue

Introduction: A nerd traveling to England is mistaken for a dead spy and is subsequently enrolled in a school that trains Spies so that American secrets can be extracted. New York one week before the start of classes, an American operative gets shot in the head in his NY Penthouse. A feminine shadow leaves the room and a few minutes later the room explodes, incinerating the body. *** Chris is a gifted student; he has a photographic memory and an IQ that makes NASA scientists look...

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The Three Signs Book 4 LisaChapter 54 Reboot

The words that Mary Beth was saying to me somehow didn’t register, everything after the ‘she’s dead, Will ... she was drowned in the floodwaters’ was just noise. I understood what she told me, the troubling dreams I had experienced the night before made sense. There was a loud rushing in my head, and I was wracked with loud sobs. I was aware of Traci standing next to me, her arms around my shoulders, and Mary Beth was on the phone, talking to someone. “Let’s get you down to bed, Will,” Mary...

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The Three Signs Book 1 CathyChapter 10 Sweet Sixteen

I was half awake, and remembering that I was in Dianne’s old bedroom at Cathy’s place, I rolled over to look at the clock next to the bed. 5:30! Far too early to get up; but I needed to have a pee, so I quietly crept out of bed and into the hall, not wanting to disturb anyone. I tiptoed down the hallway, and tried to open the bathroom door quietly. Not being completely familiar with the house yet, I had already started to open the door when I remembered about the squeaky hinges. Oh well, too...

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The Three Signs Book 2 LoriChapter 39 Songs of Injustice

With the wedding out of the way, we got back into the work on the songs for the new album, as well as various gigs around the place. They were starting to take shape, but the real challenge was to ensure that the songs were musically as good as our previous work, and could stand alone as rock songs. We didn’t want the lyrics to be too ‘preachy’ and turn people off. There’s no point in making a protest song, if people don’t like it and refuse to listen to it. After my talk with Alonzo’s...

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The Three Signs Book 4 LisaChapter 16 Babies and Bullets

“It’s on,” Mary Beth said. “Their baby is on the way!” “Oh, I had better get up to the hospital then,” Mrs. White said. “Where should I put my case?” I showed Mrs. White where her bedroom would be; told her that this afternoon we would get the bed made with fresh sheets, and put some towels out for her. Mary Beth was ready to take her up to the hospital; I would clean the bedroom and make her bed with some fresh sheets. At least the room was ready for her when she returned from the...

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The Three Signs Book 2 LoriChapter 33 Summertime Tours

We spent the morning going over the ‘Sister Angela’ scenario with Lori; she wrote down all of the lines that we could recall, our descriptions of what happened overnight, even my rather sacrilegious thoughts on nun-fucking. While Megan and I would be out of town on the tour, Tracy and Lori would flesh out the story, even starting to write it. Around lunchtime some of the others returned home; Mary Beth was pleased to see us. She showed us the final schedule for the first country tour, we...

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The Three Signs Book 1 CathyChapter 7 Four in a Boat

The next day, Sunday, I spent time playing the piano and swimming in the pool. After dinner, I walked down to church; hoping Cathy would be there. I wasn’t disappointed; both she and David were there; David, of course, sitting with Gina. “How was your lunch?” I asked. “Not too bad,” Cathy replied. “But I kept thinking about what we may do tomorrow. Are you sure you are comfortable with being with the other two as well?” “Yes, but can we talk about it afterwards?” I said. “You don’t have to...

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The Three Signs Book 4 LisaChapter 38 Bicentennial Year ndash Part 2

For our visit to Brisbane for our week-long gig at Expo, most of the people were flying, leaving Sydney early on Saturday morning for the hour and a half flight to Brisbane. Lisa and I were taking the train, the XPT left Central at 2:40 pm on Friday, getting into the main station in Brisbane just before 5:00 am on Saturday. We had booked a sleeper cabin for the trip, and the return journey would leave Brisbane just before 6:00 am in the following Sunday, arriving at Central just after 8:00...

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The Three Signs Book 1 CathyChapter 11 Friends and Lovers

I was dreaming, I must have been, lying in my bed, when I felt a person slide under the sheets next to me. A hand slid over my mouth, and I heard a voice whisper in my ear. “Quiet, don’t make a noise,” she said. “I just want to lie next to you for a while, and feel our bodies together.” Lori? It couldn’t be her, but it certainly felt real; her body was pressed against my back, and I could feel her warm breath on my cheek. My buttocks were hard against her lower stomach. “Lori?” I started...

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The Three Signs Book 4 LisaChapter 7 Itrsquos Just a Casual Encounter

Don’t ask me what my name is I know what your game is It’s just a casual encounter It’s just a casual encounter It’s just a casual encounter Christina Amphlett & Mack McEntee Free Falling Late September, 1982 I landed with a hard thump on the ground, knocking all the air out of my lungs. I felt a stabbing pain in my shoulder, and then more pain as my foot slammed against the back wall of the house. I heard Lisa scream, and come running towards me. “Everyone! Help, please! Will’s...

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The Three Signs Book 2 LoriChapter 31 Second Semester

On the last day of July, we took Alonzo, Paul and Patrick to the airport. At least for Patrick and Wendy, it was only a temporary separation, he would be back in two weeks’ time; but for Ros it was a very tearful farewell. The five months before Alonzo was back for his sabbatical job teaching at the University would really drag out for her. Patrick said that one of his first projects would be to get a remote data link set up in our study going back to the office at St. Leonards, ostensibly so...

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The Three Signs Book 2 LoriChapter 2 Lori Finally

“Hi Lori, Will here,” I said when she answered. “Will Morris, where have you been these last four days?” she yelled down the phone line. “I’ve been worried sick about you; every time I called it was just that stupid machine, I even drove around to see if you were at home; your car was in the garage, but there was no answer. What have you been doing?” I told her briefly that on Monday morning, I had been hit by a car as I was crossing the street. I quickly told her that I hadn’t been badly...

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The Three Signs Book 4 LisaChapter 52 Developments in Canberra

Late December 1996 – January 1997 We had the big Christmas Day party at Banksia Lodge, much as we had done in previous years. My father again played ‘Santa Claus’, handing out presents to all the children present. On Boxing Day, we watched the televised start of the Sydney to Hobart yacht race, there were some impressive boats; a huge Reichel/Pugh maxi, owned by the head of the software company SAP. ‘Morning Glory’ was first out of the harbour, followed by ‘Condor of Currabubula’,...

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The Three Signs Book 1 CathyChapter 13 Lazy Days of Summer

Cathy and I had a late breakfast on Sunday morning; it was still overcast outside, and looked like there could be more rain later in the day. Actually, despite having slept together the whole night – just sleeping, too – our mood was a sombre as the weather. “I miss her already, you know,” Cathy said out of the blue. I didn’t have to ask Cathy who ‘her’ was; I was also feeling sad at not being able to be with Lori for the next few weeks. “Me too,” I said. “How come Janelle gets to go with...

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The Three Signs Book 3 JanelleChapter 7 The New Album Takes Shape

After the New Year’s Eve gig, we had a very lazy New Year’s Day. I think I slept in until close to noon; and did nothing that afternoon until Janelle came around just before dinner time. Or breakfast time for her ... stupid shift hours. We had time for a quickie, before she had to eat, and get ready for work. She promised that she would spend more time with me over the weekend. With the New Year’s gig out of the way, it was time to concentrate on the extensive schedule that Fifa had for us...

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The Three Signs Book 2 LoriChapter 17 Interviews

We pressed the intercom button, a voice answered and we said who we were and that we were there to see Bob Hudson to appear on his show. A minute later a man came to the door, unlocked it, and let us in. “G’day, I’m Marius, Bob’s producer. Come on in, you’re all a bit early, but we can go up to the studio,” he said. He led us up two flights of stairs, down a dimly lit corridor, and into the control room or the studio. The place looked like it was a dump, there were boxes piled in the...

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The Three Signs Book 1 CathyChapter 23 Senior High School

My lips were so close to Cathy’s; I could feel her breath on me. Her eyes looked directly into mine, and I felt a huge yearning. I was about to pull her to me, letting my lips lock on hers, wanting to feel her tongue against mine, when I stopped myself, realising what was happening. “Think, William Morris, use your head, don’t blindly rush in!” I heard a voice in my head. “Don’t you remember what you told yourself, what you told Lori? You know what will happen if you give in to your desires,...

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The Three Signs Book 2 LoriChapter 27 Back at University

Just as everyone had warned me; second year electrical engineering was full on, right from the first day. In each of the subjects, the lecturers didn’t waste time reviewing what we might have studied in the previous year; it was head first into the deep end. I had some doubts about one of the subjects; Solid State Physics. To me, this looked like the sort of subject material that graduate students at Oxford University or MIT would cover; quantum mechanics, atomic particles, and similar...

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The Three Signs Book 1 CathyChapter 28 Towards the Final Exams

The August school holidays were only three weeks away; these were going to be the last break before the HSC exams at the end of October. At lunchtime one day, we were all discussing the plans we had for the two weeks off school. “Well, I’ll be going over all of the previous exam papers,” Cathy said. Some of the others groaned, called her ‘swot’. David wasn’t being anywhere near as studious as his sister; he had arranged to take a train up to the Gold Coast to renew his acquaintance with his...

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The Three Signs Book 2 LoriChapter 10 My Baby Just Cares For Me

We managed to get all of our stuff into the back of the car; but it meant all four of us had to squeeze into the front seat. We worked it out; Megan sat in the centre next to me, then Lori was on the outside, with Jillian on her lap. At least it didn’t take all that long to drive back to Mona Vale, where we dropped Megan and Jillian off with their bags, before heading to Lori’s place. On the drive back to Mona Vale Megan told us about her experiences with the publicity photo shoot yesterday...

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The Three Signs Book 3 JanelleChapter 6 Rockin The Antler

“I have no idea what’s got into my sister,” Mary Beth said as she sat across the table from me. Since this Monday would be the last time for over a month that Mary Beth and I would be able to have our regular lunch date, I had made a point of catching a bus into the city to meet her. Rather than eat at our usual location at the Quay, we had gone to a nice steakhouse in Phillip Street; just a short distance up from her office in Macquarie Street. It was going to be an expensive meal, but I...

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The Three Signs Book 1 CathyChapter 34 Farewells

I pulled up in the driveway of Jenny’s place, and knocked on the front door. Jenny answered; pulled me inside, wrapped her arms around me, and kissed me deeply, even before I had a chance to put my stuff down. When she finally released me, I asked her where I could hang up my clothes for the evening, and she led me down the hallway to her room. Hannah was waiting there; she was just wearing a long white tee shirt, sitting on the double bed with her legs curled up underneath her. “So, how...

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The Three Signs Book 4 LisaChapter 32 Party Games

After our overnight cruise to Castle Lagoon, we discussed where we might take our next cruise. One option was to go up to Lake Macquarie, we could go up for a few days at the start of the mid-semester break; I would have to be back in time to take the midday train to Canberra for my Labor Party policy steering committee meeting. But with some planning, we could sail up on the Friday afternoon, reach the Swansea bridge at high tide, spend the next three days exploring the lake, and return to...

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The Three Signs Book 4 LisaChapter 35 Hello CSE Goodbye Tommy

“Good morning, I am Doctor Will Morris,” I said to the assembled class. “I assume you are all here for subject 6.710, Introduction to Computer Engineering. If anyone is in the wrong place, I suggest now you leave quietly, and get to wherever it is you should be.” I looked around the lecture theatre, there were maybe two hundred and fifty people, none of whom looked like leaving. Most of them had been in the previous lecture, the introductory lecture for Computing 1A. The challenge we had...

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The Three Signs Book 4 LisaChapter 12 Changes in Foursomes

After the great Election Day results, Lisa and I had a fun day sailing; it was a Quartet Bowl race, our favourite. Lisa steered us to another win across the line; we were looking good for a first place in the series. On the way home, Lisa asked me what my thoughts were about Georgina. “You know she wants to sleep with us,” she said. “And both Fiona and I would like to sleep with her, too.” “I guess that’s two votes out of three in favour for it already,” I said. “No, that’s not how it...

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The Three Signs Book 1 CathyChapter 9 Watching the Yacht Race

I woke up early, feeling slightly disoriented until I realised where I was – in Cathy’s old bedroom, at the Parsons’s place, where she had slept until she took over Dianne’s room. It wasn’t yet six o’clock, and I could hear the sounds of the surf through the open window. Elsewhere in the house, all was quiet. I suspected Mr and Mrs Parsons would be sleeping in, and I didn’t know what time David returned, but I was well and truly asleep when he did. I was lying there, wondering whether to get...

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The Three Signs Book 1 CathyChapter 38 Epilogue

Monday morning was dismal, pouring with rain, and I was waiting to hear from Cathy. She should have arrived home last night, and I thought she would have called me then. Maybe she got in late, and was tired, I told myself. By mid-morning, I hadn’t heard anything, and I was going to call her, when I saw the mail arrive. There was a break in the persistent rain, so I walked down to the letter box to see what had arrived. There was a letter for me; in Cathy’s writing, postmarked from Wednesday....

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The Three Signs Book 2 LoriChapter 36 University Third Year Part 1

I woke up refreshed and excited about the start of the new semester; once I had finished breakfast, and packed my notes and papers for the day’s lectures in my backpack, it was on my bike for the quick ride across to the campus. The first two sessions were the introductory lecture for Numerical Analysis, and a tutorial session; it looked to be pretty interesting (at least for a mathematics subject), the material that we would cover seemed quite interesting. The lecturer, Doctor Opie, appeared...

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The Three Signs Book 4 LisaChapter 9 Parks and Parties

The weeks leading up to the final exams were busy; not just studying for the two exams that I had, but helping Fiona get her internship report finished and ready for submission; last minute coaching for some of my students, and trying to fend off a potential war between some people at Sydney University and other participants in the AARNET project. Independent of the AARNET project, Sydney University had developed a simple store-and-forward network, but they wanted to use the country-level...

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The Three Signs Book 4 LisaChapter 28 Touring

There were several additions to the entourage; Robyn and Sally were coming, along with their two kids; and of course the other two young kids, Bruce and Rachel’s son, Robert, and Andrew and Mandy’s daughter, Debbie would be coming along. Given that all four kids were a bit over a year old, they really couldn’t be left behind, and neither Paul nor Phil wanted to be away from their wives and kids for the three weeks. I could see in the future organizing tours like this one would become more...

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The Three Signs Book 4 LisaChapter 4 Building Relationships

February saw life start to return to normal. Back at Uni, we started to prepare for the upcoming semester. Preliminary enrolment figures for Computing I indicated we would have slightly over three hundred full time students, and another sixty or so in the part time class. During the summer break another large room had been equipped with terminals connected to the Department’s PDP 11/70, which had also been upgraded with additional memory and disk storage. As well, another 11/40 had been...

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The Three Signs Book 1 CathyChapter 4 Photography

As Cathy and I had agreed, we spent the next few days apart. I did my piano grade exam practice for several hours each day, it was boring, but it had to be done. We did speak to each other every night to talk about the things we had done that day. The rain that had cleared on Monday afternoon had returned, so we would not have been able to do much outside anyway. Actually, thinking about it, may have led to more inside activities, including more of what we might discover in Cathy’s copy of...

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The Three Signs Book 1 CathyChapter 15 Partings

After the first month or so of school, memories of the summer holidays had faded quickly. The study workload had increased dramatically, and I was glad I had taken the time to set myself a strict program. With schoolwork, practice for my next piano grade exam, and rehearsals and playing at the Mirage, Friday nights were my only regular free time. After the blow-up with Katey Jackson, I didn’t bother going to the youth group meetings on Sunday nights, which gave me some time to get things...

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The Three Signs Book 4 LisaChapter 48 Winners and Losers

“Hey, Will, it’s Martin here,” the person on the phone said. “Just a reminder, it’s coming up time for your company’s Annual General Meeting, and there’s a few ideas I want to run past you.” He suggested it was time we appointed a ‘Board of Directors’, four or five people who I trusted to provide ‘corporate governance’ and review the major decisions of the company. “I assume at the moment, you’re pretty much running things by yourself, with input from Lisa, Michelle, Mary Beth?” he...

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The Three Signs Book 4 LisaChapter 46 Sabbatical

Tactics on this year’s Coffs race were quite different; the wind was a steady twelve knots from the southeast. Therefore, it was a spinnaker run all the way to Coffs; the perfect test for the new hounds asymmetrical number one. The larger boats made the best of the ideal conditions, we were twentieth across the line, several hours ahead of the next Young 88. We sailed reasonably well in the three short courses, but our overall result for the regatta was a tenth on scratch, fifth on handicap....

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The Three Signs Book 4 LisaChapter 42 Changes Changes Changes

“Hey, Will, have you got a few minutes to talk? We’ve got a proposal we’d like to talk with you about,” Paul Christie said to me, when we had finished our first sound check for the New Year’s Eve concert in Victoria Park. Paul had established The Party Boys back around 1983 along with Kevin Boritch, and since then it had served as a place for anyone between groups to join and play with. Even some big international names – Joe Walsh, Eric Burden – had played with them. “We hear you guys are...

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