I thanked whatever entity and took a long breath, now I wasn’t responsible anymore. Seriously? What were my parents thinking? If there had been a ro...ber, would a sixteen year old petite girl really be able to stop them? The door opened down stairs and big brother called out, “I’m home!” he sang. And I instantly knew he was drunk. “Mom, Dad?” he called out. He even went into their rooms and checked, I could hear the doors to their rooms opening, and I could hear my brother’s heavy steps. “Well,. Having to talk to people as I lay there in traction unable to move it taught me that everyone is interesting, with their own story, and it also taught me that life is for living and enjoying as you only get one shot.’ Looking at the lovely woman in front of him, his clear blue eyes smiling into hers, he whispered, ‘Now tell me your story, what your hopes and dreams are, what you like, what you hate, and why you think your not interesting and worth knowing. Because my lovely and very beautiful. . Bobby, this is exactly why I wanted to practice law inthe first place. It will be gratifying to feel good about what I do forthe right reasons again."The attorney gazed at me thoughtfully for a moment."Bobby," she spoke quietly. "What do you want from all of this?"I sat, stunned."I hadn't really thought that far," I confirmed. "I want... something.I'm not really sure." Do you want to go back?" she asked point-blank."To Joanna?" I asked incredulously."No," she responded, "to you; the way you. Although I didn’t see that much of her or my cousins now that I was sixteen, she and mum always remained very close and there was still something special about the bond between us.She had a nice place out on the edge of town – not one of the new-build monstrosities but an old house in a secluded location that they’d renovated when she and her then-husband first moved there before us kids were born. It had always seemed idyllic to me; surrounded by woods and fields, no neighbours, no traffic..