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Show 190 Germans and Japanese were, degenerate races for centuries. A man came in who smoked a lot of cigarettes and looked at her big belly and finally said "What are you waiting for?" and Helen sxaa said, "The same thing everybody is waiting for," and the man said "What's that?" which Helen took as a rhetorical question seeing as she'd already given him a xkxixk rhetorical answer. Every once in awhile a nurse came out and smiled nicely at Helen and told her everything was going fine. Then she'd tell the man with the cigarette that everything was going fine and then she'd leave. "I guess everything is going fine," said the man with the cigarette. "Or not," said Helen. She was feeling kind of negative. She looked at the guy xi with the g cigarette and wondered why he wasn't off fighting somewhere. Seemed like the appropriate thing nowadays. She thought of her barracks apartment and her coffee in the morning with Dee and about cleaning the grime off her windows and window panes in the morning and saying hello to all the women who walked by with children in them or around them. She felt the movement in her belly. Those apartment barracks were okay. The women all helped each other out with plumbing or carpentry or painting or whatever and when they were done they talked about their children or said how much they missed their husbands, lots of nice things to say about them in general, but except for Dee who really seemed to think that Derk Delco Sr. was the xxxi sweetest thing since chocolate rhinoceroses, when the women got specific they were usually bitching. It was hard to figure out what they really missed. That's what Helen was feeling. She felt like she missed Red but she couldn't figure out what she missed. Maybe sleeping with him, except that he took up the whole bed and sweated. The nurse came out and told Helen she could see Dee soon and told the man with the cigarette everything was going fine. The man tried to smile at Helen and that's when Helen realized that the difference between men and women was that men axxx^ didn't know anything about pain. That explained the whole state of affairs. The nurse came in again and told Helen to come into the next T*nn<^where there was\a doctor with a bald head and a chaplain with |