Not just metaphorically, but literally. And now there could be no turning back. She was alone. Well not quite alone, that was the issue. She could hea... footsteps coming. Should she have waited? Her father had refused her first request. The second time he had told her she must not ask again until her sixteenth birthday. That was today and when Miho had asked again this morning, she had expected to be told she must wait again. Miho tried to turn to see him but the ropes wouldn't let her turn her. You’re PattyKat.”Katie giggled and said, “Well I did have my heart set on a toaster strudel, but...”Bobby pulled a plate from behind his back with two frosted toaster strudels and a banana on it.JR broke out laughing, “Fooled you!”Katie laughed along with Bobby and JR, but she was in no way surprised that Bobby had known what she would want, and fulfill her request without her having to ask. She silently hoped that her son would inherit his father’s skills and that he would find a girl that. Mara, seeing each of his c***dren (roughly half girls and boys), she brightened with enthusiasm. She complimented Omar on being, as she put it: "a good father and husband"; to which Omar seemed extremely pleased that she would say so. "God has blessed me very much!" He replied, smiling broadly, and proudly."Yes he has!" I said.He looked up at me, and for a moment he didn't reply, and then, glancing at Mara, and then back up to where I'd remained standing, he said, and without any sense of. ”I interrupted her. “Aren’t you forgetting something? What about a wedding date? Give me at least the name of a month, then we can do all of the planning.”She gushed; “Oh, you’re right. Not only a wedding date, but you need to meet my family, and I need to meet yours.”“Yeah, about meeting my family. I am the family head, my mother left for parts unknown when Tom was three, and my dad died eight years ago, so you have met the whole family, except for an aunt that I love with all my heart, but.