"What's this all about anyway?" Ed came in late for work, then he was disrespectful to me when I called him on it. I told him we needed him to go to D...nver and he refused. I told him if he didn't go, I'd fire him. He started to try to take company property out of his desk and I stopped him." I'll talk to you about it later, Dale. Ed, would you come to my office please?"I had always liked Pete. He was a very stern man, but he was fair. For that reason, I followed him to his office."Ed, let me. Her mother hadn't set much of an example, either. Finding Bob had been something of a miracle in her opinion. That Alice came along with him was a gift so precious she couldn't imagine doing without a mother-in-law any more.The odor of fresh paint still hung in the air, though Alice was trying her best to overcome those fumes by baking bread daily, not to mention the pot roast that had been simmering for six hours in the crock pot. Even the baby seemed to smell it, and was moving around more. At twenty-nine, her brother was still a handsome man. He kept his black hair longer than he used to, pulled back into a pony tail. She wasn’t sure why he’d changed but she suspected it was because he didn’t really care about his hair. Radu was relentless and resourceful with things that mattered to him. He could be negligent and forgetful of things which didn’t.He was still the thin, wiry young man he’d always been but there was a hint of steel in him now. He wasn’t as playful as he’d been when. "It is God's will that my eyes cloud over and soon I will no longer beable to use my pen. May He be merciful and allow me, poor Fanchea, timeto relate the true story of my life, and then may He have pity on myentrapped soul.My father, whom I never knew, was a soldier in the service of kingDiarmait mac Enna Mac Murrough in his wars against the high kingTairrdelbach mac Ruaidri Ua Conchobair. He also worked a small farm whenthere was no fighting to be done. My mother bore him three healthy.