It was being touted in all the communities as the event of the age. The three mothers were working on making it a big success. Invitations were sent v...rbally to everyone in all the communities. Tom and Vic were in great demand. Robby and Pam volunteered their services with King. Bennie and I were in the wedding and were involved too much to provide transportation services.Bennie and some of the men in Preservation opened a couple of the local hotels, cleaned up the rooms, and had them ready for. I love you so much to see you suffer because of that”“Who says I am suffering, Nicolet?”“It’s that you know I care about you. I want you to succeed in your project. But what if you fail?”“I won’t. I won’t fail. I know I won’t, I just feel it won’t fail”“But what if it does?”“I won’t. I won’t fail. I will go until the last energies of my life exist to push me, Nicolet”“I just don’t want you to suffer….”“Don’t worry. I am fine. We are in this together, right?”“Yeah, Lumi”“Nicolet. I do love you. .. I think we'd better not say anything else on that topic, girls. Let's just wait for Mackenzie to return."While I was waiting for Mackenzie, I had a talk with myself. My plan had called for me taking the moral high ground with the family, to be fun, positive, forgiving, etc., all the way to the end of the evening, and then to try to use my position to make them believe I had buckets of integrity and morality by criticizing their lack of those attributes during the "Driver's License. . !" Mrs. Wysong laughed. "You'll need to get lots of rest tonight. Tomorrow we shop 'til we drop."Craig said you would know the sort of clothes I should buy—that I was to defer to your judgment," Julie said."Does that bother you... , that I'm supposed to be guiding you in what direction you should go—in the clothes buying department—and for that matter in other things, as well?" Claire... , No it doesn't" Julie said. "It really doesn't. I trust Craig implicitly in all things. He is the most.