The phone buzzed again & Shirl said she was just checking in to let me know all was ok but then asked if she could spend the night with Brad & come ho...e before lunctime the next day? she assured me they wiuld be alone as the pub where they were had nice rooms to let as well but she would tell me all tomorrow, what could i say as i had let it go this far so i replied hesitantly that she could, she said she would reward me & hung up, there was others chatting to my friends upon my return & i just. I counted the kids that are going to be affected and counting my two there are thirteen youngsters." You better make that fourteen kids. Mary is pregnant and apparently she conceived that night."Was there no end to this morass I was in? I felt like I was sinking into a swamp where there was no exit. But why did my wife tell Max before she told me? She couldn't be that afraid of me.Now I knew what Mary's problem was this week. She had just found out she was pregnant and she couldn't possibly. And if you keep being thisway, we'll have to get a stroller and a changing table that will fit you,and we'll just keep treating you like selfish babies forever." But we can't take them off!" the boys whined."All you have to do is care about each other, and you can be big boysagain," Dad said."But we do care about each other," they whined again, and their parents,knowing they were lying, just sighed and closed the door.The boys cried and pounded the carpet with their mittened hands. They wereso. Scared and mousey to try anything. That’s all it is for you. Music, music, music and nothing else. Live a little. Call him,’ said Marlinda. ‘And you are fresh and fast. I don’t wanna be no rich man’s bedroom experiment,’ said Thelma. ‘Suit yourself. Let me tell you something, if that fine looking man was interested in me, I would experiment away. We already had the talk about what you can do…so that you…stay out of trouble,’ added Marlinda. ‘Yeah. Yeah, I know,’ said Thelma. She poured herself.