`` pam , you should n't be standing here crying like this ; you need to rest . '' `` perhaps he knows you report to me . '' `` this will be an operational model , '' he said . and now let 's listen to yours , shall we ? did n't you find hair , skin , something ? '' naturally , i 'd learned the facts of life pretty early since i could read minds ( and , as a child , had no control over what i absorbed ) . 