We had a long talk about Mike and you." Is she better?" A little. I don't know if she and Mike are right for each other but time will tell. She asked ...ome very direct questions about us. I answered the best I could." What did she want to know?" She wanted to know if we were really serious or was this just a middle-age fling?" Well?" I told her that it was as serious as it could be after such a short time. I told her that I was happier than I had ever been. Then she asked about Lena's. ”She giggled into my ear. I felt her tongue on my earlobe. “I was.”Jenny stepped away from me and went to the table with her cup in her hand. She sat in the place that Sherry had occupied during my interrogation and pushed Sherry’s used mug to the side and placed her own down on the table.Noticing the cup I was using, she shook her head with another giggle. I brought her a plate of pancakes and placed it in front of her with a flourish.“Your breakfast, mum.”“Thank you, Kenneth,” she answered. I make kids sit through 40 minutes of class time when their parents can’t make them sit for 5 min. without an I Pod, Game Cube or movie rental.You want to know what I make?(She paused again and looked at each and every person at the table)I make kids wonder.I make them question.I make them apologize and mean it.I make them have respect and take responsibility for their actions.I teach them how to write and then I make them write. Keyboarding isn’t everything.I make them read, read, read.I make. Didn't everyone want that?She was confused."Lana!" she said with a whimper. "I don't understand! Doesn't Mandymatter? Don't you want to find one person to love you?" Lana justcontinued. Wynne thought hard, trying to find something else in Lana toappeal to, to reconcile her friend to Wynne's understanding of the world."Lana, you told me that you have a special person; a benefactor. Don'tyou want to be his? What would he think?"It seemed to work. Lana froze in position, and so did Tony. Wynne.