LIFE AND DEATH AND IN BETWEEN So she asked me should she spend twenty-eight hundred dollars on her dog for heart worm treatments or buy a new hearing aid? I yelled at her: "Give me the dog I'll take care of it." She did and I took it out to the country and shot it. She asks: "How's Alyosha doing?" "Feeling no pain," I tell her. She thanks me for being such a very good friend. God regrets all his creation, I'm sure of it. Else he'd show himself every now and then taking credit. But he doesn't and I know why, I've written things that I try to distance myself from. I just hope that unlike God I come out on the plus of the totalled sum. Mike Geary another 170 pages to go.