Good Googamooga, Carri. Are you going to let a little set-back like that slow
you down? Horse feathers!
Are you that fragile? I have an image of you in my mind now --- you are
standing
naked [the is no element of sexuality here --- you are part of my family now
and
hence under the incest taboo]. You are standing naked and covered with little
fractures like a piece of glass heated and then dowsed in water. You wear a
sign,
"Handle with care; this object is fragile."
Alton, whose wife once fractured a metatarsal the morning after all the men in
the
family left for a two week canoe trip in the puckerbrush where they could not
be
contacted, no matter what. She had the twice-daily chore of hand-milking the
family cow; it was an altercation with the cow that broke her hand.