I was under the impression, quite honestly, that the LDS Church required it. Now that you told me otherwise, I am livid, as much as that is possible f...r a ghost,” Mom reassured me.“Dad really went downhill without you, Mom. Karen was nothing but an interloper, a pernicious influence, strict as fuck with me, with Julie, and with Manon. As the eldest, though, I got the brunt of it. The twins, they got off relatively easy. Karen kept pushing me with this abstinence talk, with the constant meeting. A. Thursday night, then stayfor the whole weekend to take care of some loose ends left over from themove. Before I reached the kitchen, I heard Mom then ask Nicole if shewas going to be around over the weekend and if she could look in on Daveand I just so we didn't think we had free run to do anything we wanted.Mom must have really hit it off with Nicole, I thought, they seemed to beso buddy buddy in just a short time. When I reached the kitchen, Momtold me about her and Dad going away for. He was a regular until he met and fell in love with Cindy. Cindy was horrified when he told her about our Friday nights and refused to attend with him, so he chose love over lust. Cindy and John come to dinner often, bringing their new baby, Jane, but they never come near us on Friday nights. At least she does not refuse to meet us.Apart from Friday nights we are just a 'normal', loving, happy family, albeit a larger family than we were five years ago. Soon after Angie and Harriet started their. Though she still read every word, Blake noticed that she really gave close attention to the real estate ads. "You haven't given up on going back, have you?" he asked one Thursday night."Stronger than ever," Jenny replied. "By next spring, I should be pretty well through with all the piddly stuff. If I'm lucky, we should be able to do the worst of the moving in March, then we've got the European tour, and that's one of those things I'd do, anyway. But, we should be able to spend the best part of.