The Chocolate Lab

There's something about taking long walks that seems to have a positive effect on the mind. When she was a child, back in the farmland her parents ran, taking long walks was a luxury—there were always a lot of things to do: cows to milk, chickens and turkeys to feed, long plots of different vegetables and fruit orchards to tend and water. But even so they never had complicated problems back then—usually it was the financial kind, which could be solved by selling off a few cattle heads, or turkeys.

This, however, is different. Claire has never had "boy problems" of this magnitude before. Men liked her, but those were ordinary men, whose entire gamut of concerns usually fell along the lines of where to look for temporary jobs, or what Playstation game they should play. There were no men like Gabriel and Miguel, whose men decisions can affect tens of thousands of other men. And sometimes, when those facts sink in, Claire couldn't help but get her mind blown.