" Do you really want us to come down there? Will your women put up with me because I was close with you before I moved away?"Mercy got in on the call,..."This is Mercy, and yes we want you to come down here. You need to see our kids too and you know you want to see Martin and Glenda, Juanita, Abe, and Alice. We all want you to come."Kathy paused, then said, "If we come down you may be in for a surprise. I'm not sure about it, but I'll ask Mom and Dad. I'm not going to ask the kids because they. I kept the house rules though, and let Helen grow up without sexualizing or grooming her.When Helen reached her fourteenth birthday, I took her riding. We rode away from the homestead and out to one of the cabins the patrols used. In summer, the patrols either slept under the stars, or used a tent, so there was no chance we would be interrupted in the cabin.“Are you going to make me your sex slave? Helen asked.“No, you didn’t sell yourself into slavery,” I replied.“So you wouldn’t force me, if. "I would never haveguessed this was to happen. I never imagined being a part of yourfamily's life. Please, understand," she continued wiping tears from hereyes, "I'm not trying to take your place. But I hope I've done as good ajob as you would." She held the frame to her chest lay down and criedherself to sleep. Sometime in the night, Tommy crawled into the bed withher."Mommy?" he said."Yes, Tommy," Ann answered still asleep."Can I lay with you?" Oh course, Baby." And with that, he. “It says twenty on the back,” said Bernadette. “Is that twenty dollars?”“It has to be,” said Johnnie Sue. “My grandpa had a coin like this when I was little. They were worth a lot of money then. He let me hold it one time and told me it could buy a whole mule!”“1861,” said Hilda Mae. “These are almost a hundred years old!”“How many are there?” asked Bernadette.They made stacks of ten. When they were done, there were forty-three stacks of ten, and one stack of seven.“That’s over eight thousand.