Aimee had tried to call her and when she didn't answer she went over to check on her. Mama was pretty old by this time, in her early 80s. She didn't h...ve any medical problems that we knew of. She just went to bed one night and didn't wake up.Denise, Kim, Aimee, and I all cried at her funeral. She was the world's best mom in my opinion. Loving, caring, just the best.We laid her to rest next to dad, and though Aimee and I never really knew him, Denise and Kim both remembered him, even if they. The pipes running up the brick halls were secured with steel pipe clamps and screwed into the mortar of the brick work. I didn’t consider that a problem.I went to Tonya’s Diner for lunch. I needed to tell her I was home. I didn’t warn her that I might be ordering takeout orders in great volume in the future. I had to pin down the cover story first.In the afternoon of my first day back, I arranged for Ed to finish the odds and ends, which were always the finishing touches needed to complete any. We explained that we couldn’t sleep at the hotel and decided to come home. I asked Deb if she wanted me to drive her home now but we’d pay her for the entire night regardless. Deb felt it would be best to get a good sleep in her own room so I would drive her home. We paid her for the babysitting and were leaving the house. I kissed Erin good-bye and she smiled at me and motioned for me to ring her, something I nearly forgot to do. Deb walked out ahead of me and I could barely take my eyes off. She was like no other woman he had ever met. She was brilliant, witty, beautiful, and actually talked to him. She was everything he wanted in a woman. She proved she could hold an intelligent conversation and that she actually had a fun personality. If there was one thing he couldn't stand it was women who were beautiful, but weren't born with a brain; he knew most college guys didn't care if a woman was intelligent or not as long as they got laid, but he did care. As he overlooked the golf.