Since I amexpecting, I am more careful. I don't want my babies harmed. I drive adesk until I deliver.Back to the party. Nicole turned on the sound sys...em and started someJazz. Right about now KoKo Taylor sounded perfect. I hoped she had someBela Fleck tunes. A warm sunny day in May, good music, friends, foodand drink. I was in near bliss. I wished Barry were here for I feltlike dancing. He is so light on his feet. I closed my eyes and letNicole and her friends talk among themselves. I felt like. . and a few dollars ... ok ... several big bills ... or maybe a decent sized cashiers check.So ... I didn't exactly buy the warehouse ... I leased it with an option. The chests were moved ... including all the chests from Colonel Parker's widow ... to the controlled climate storage and unpacked, sorted, and catalogued. The truly trash was junked, the period clothing was offered up for bid, and the valuables locked up.The History Department's Nineteenth Century professor was grateful for the. I was an only child and I had never been allowed to take friends with to the cottage. But I had never been bored, no way. I had always found something to spend hours with. But the closer we got there the more I was afraid, I’d be caught in exaggerated memories, and it wouldn't be all that great actually..About some twenty-five minutes later I realized my worries happened to be in vain: The lake and the cottage looked untouched as if time had frozen still. It was a marvelous yet ensorceling. “It’s only been a month,” I said. “However, all of my sisters, even Mom are very pretty. I guess it took me becoming sixteen to realize how beautiful you all are.”I walked into the house with Sammi on my arm, and both sisters observed this, but didn’t say anything.Dinner wasn’t going to be ready for a while. Sam went upstairs to her bedroom, while Emma went in to help Mom.Tiffany took me by the hand and we sat together on the sofa. “Is there a reason you and Sam were holding hands.