He'd considered a full frontal assault, but that seldom worked with Paula.Still, it was unfair that he would then have to bear the brunt of his mother...s nagging about their childlessness. He couldn't deny that she wasn't getting any younger -- though 52 still seemed a reasonable age to be a grandmother. Yes, Mother had said -- but she wasn't one yet, was she?Steve could only sigh and nod and swear they were working on it. Couldn't tell Mother about Paula. Mother thought the sun rose and set on. Patricia jumped right in, and everything seems okay, but maybe we should have done this for her as well.”He looked to the newly anointed Nerds to assure they were following his line of thinking, and they nodded.“Okay. You’ve heard Sam call me a ‘special snowflake’ more than once,” Michael grinned. “I suppose he is right in some ways, but that doesn’t go far enough. We are the special snowflake -- our family. Hold that in your heads and listen to this family ‘war story.’”Michael paused for a. They all use methods to prevent such an occurrence. Here they use a douche containing witch hazel and lavender–in Wiltshire Sarah Paylin at the Anchor used a potion from a wise woman containing ragwort and lupine seed—in Lincoln Mary Whitehouse used a concoction of goats milk and vinegar, –in Bordeaux, Zsa Zsa...”I stopped him. “I do not need to hear any more, Woody—and what the devil is a ‘douche’?”He told me, and I wondered at the ingenuity of women, and the extended knowledge of the female. I made a simple business call, asked to talk to someone who had called my office requesting me while I was out. I was returning a call, for crying out loud. I wasn’t expecting a life-altering experience with a simple phone call. Deirdre was with a consulting firm that was supposed to tell my company how to do its business. Our company has only been in business for 55 years. Why should we know how to do our job? It was obvious we needed someone to come in to tell us what we were doing wrong..