`` i shall have the plans we have sent around to your house here , along with the directions to the home . you said you dont have anyone to help with the kids , so what brought you ? her nervous laugh seemed so out of place . it had been so long since she 'd felt a man 's lips against hers . `` i was told you were pieced together , one strip of flesh at a time , yet your face and body are as you were in the old days . '' old dreams that had faded from memory . 