When Junior graduated high school later that year, he took off for the oil fields and began to send most of his money home. And when Jaycee left five ...ears later, she pretty much did the same – sending her mom money when she could.Things were now much better for their mother, though. She still worked at the restaurant but as a hostess now. Maggie had moved back home with her two kids after her divorce, and Nicki lived a few blocks away with her brood, so the house was overrun again – this time. So, I was driving home on the Blue Star Highway about two miles north of South Haven MI headed for my home in Stanwood. It was crisp, late October, Thursday afternoon. It was a typical Lake Michigan shoreline afternoon, sunny and windy. When you could see the lake, the white caps were big.As the Blue Star is a twisty two-lane stretch of blacktop, I was moving along at maybe 60 miles an hour. I came around a bend, and about a mile up ahead I saw a young girl, looking like all of 14, trying to. It was Kate saying she would not be here because her ‘dumb fuck’ husband needed her to stay home. I was used to the last minute calls, I hated that part of her. She assured me that tomorrow would be different, that she wanted to make sure she came over to help, that she wanted to give me a big hug because of the way I’d helped her a few weeks ago. I’d given her some extra money to help leave him. She hadn’t yet. As I sat in front of my keyboard to work on my novel, I unsnapped the button on my. If that means spending all summer at home, lying out on the dock working on my tan while he's busting his ass, so be it, so long as he's not jealous of me for that, too. And I don't think he would be; he has all that down time in the winter." Look, Nicole," Scooter said, "Crystal, Preach, Jim, and I haven't worked out what we're going to do with the Felicity Ann yet, but even if Michelle goes it's probably not going to be the party hearty it's been in the past. The boat is big enough that.