.. are you gonna... ?" I don't know," Sam said. "What do you think?" I'd say, go for it. She's cute, and nice. And you need a girlfriend."Sam laughed...."What about you and Mom?" We'll still be here, of course. But you can't really take either of us out to the prom, or anything, can you?"Joan had a point, Sam thought, as he carried the cokes upstairs. It would be better if he had someone he could date publicly. He supposed he could try to turn Marcie or Katarina into a girlfriend, but he really. That collection that was updated whenever he had internet access during home visits, and Danny knew that he kept that stuff on a huge, one-terabyte USB hard-drive.Danny had a laptop too, a fancy model that was way beyond his needs. Back when he’d lived with Irina, he’d had a tired old tower computer from the pawn shop, but he’d had little real need for it. Now he was expected to retrieve all sorts of information from the internet to prepare for classes. He also had to submit reports and other. " Kianna replied, her smiling instantly vanishing from her face. "And then he showed me what I was supposed to do ... what my mother had ... I can't believe she would willingly..." Kianna burst into tears even as she snarled the words in her hatred of what her life had been – and of what her mother had done."Who says your mother did it willingly?" Alana wanted to know."He did!" Kianna spat out the words. "He said my mother loved him. She did it because she loved him!"Alana hugged the girl close. Afterward she sat with her head on his shoulder, his hands stroking her back. "You hungry?" she asked.Don Giuseppe, aka Joe Fanelli, was astounded when he and Father Nicholas met the next day. "Twenty priests and nearly 400 nuns?! I didn't mean to take the entire clergy with me!"Nicholas made an open-handed shrug. "You know the Pope is trying to think into the future, Joe. He's also trying to solve your woman shortage the quickest way possible, as well."Joe sounded angry, but Nicholas had.