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Show 713 M ther Rachelisgirl, Renae - her oldest daughter had her f i r st h'ld a g i r l . And I delivered the baby's mother and the baby's grandmother as well. And I suppose I ' l l deliver the Uaby's baby.- too, God w i l l i n g ." Aunt Helga came into the room and he smiled, slipping an arm around her waist. "That'-s not a bad record, is i t - forty-five years of p r a c t i c e , a good t h i r t y of them with HeLra' beside me." n e j - & a so many "It's been good. We've helped A of people." Aunt Helga's: features softened in a slow, remembering smile. "It must...feel very good to know that," I stammered. My father nodded. "The Lord has blessed us. Even though we're accused of killing young boys and of murdering babies just because we won't buckle under to the tyranny of the world, we know we've been given a special work - and that we're privileged to do it. The Lord keeps opening the way for us." When Aunt Helga had gone to check on a patient in another room, I said," Daddy, what will they do without you? +v,a crroun - so many depend Your patients - the-people in the group .j. i =+ fn-rpver. and then what completely upon you. You can't last forever, a will they do?" I was presumptuous, bringing it up. u someone must bring it up! He was mortal, human, *any realized that. And I had the disconcerting feeling that • -t- His life I must see him at every plausible opportunity. • „ full and would soon burst, was rounding, time was waxing t u n <*" ™ + racing across time and casting him into eternity, a comet racing n+nT.p what was left oi re. space. How to stop time, how to capture wna How to find legitimate excuses to be near him - ^ ^ o snd we both knew it. How independent, unlike so many others, • _ + canine attention to the could I be close to him without calling a |