“Uncle Joe! Uncle Joe! Come down here,” she called out.I heard her talking in rapid Italian to someone; I assumed it was Uncle Joe. When she had f...nished talking to him, she ushered us to a table, getting us to sit down.“This is a special night for you two, no? Let me get some wine for you.”She headed out the back; I looked at Megan and raised an eyebrow.“I honestly have no idea how she could tell,” Megan said. “I did tell her that I did have a boyfriend, and you would be coming to help me. I looked out the window of the car and tried to read the signs along the highway. Most of them were for stores or restaurants. There were a lot more stores here than in Cuba, and most of them looked brand-new. Even though I was excited at first, I hadn't slept in 24 hours, and the noise of the road and the car's air-conditioner lulled me to sleep.I woke up as we were entering the town of Apertus. The stores and houses here looked even newer than those in the rest of Florida, and I remembered. Of course my arrival in the kitchen set off another little chaos bomb. Irene and Emma were nearly incoherent in expressing their fear, their joy and their anxiety over the unexpected early arrival of the family for breakfast ... I got them calmed down and asked them to just go back to their cooking. I sipped my coffee and held my Goddess's hand and thought about the coming day and how I was about to change my life, and the lives of so many others.Grandpa McKesson was a naturally early riser, as. Right then I wanted to hug her for the concern she was showing me."Thanks, Jeannie," I said, letting a falling domino enter my mind as we ended the call. It was a four; three dots on one end and one on the other. What the hell?Alice's letter was thin, feeling about the same weight as Cindy's.Dear Sammy,I hate to make a pest of myself, but you will soon have Brenda and me as neighbors again. I've decided to come home, work in my Dad's office and take the bar exam at home instead of remaining.