Janetarrived about twenty minutes later, and we went to my room, where Itold her what had happened. She thought it was a hoot.With my dad with me, I h...d no trouble getting a new drivers license,then, I went with dad to his office and applied for a job. I ended upas a clerk. Working as a girl was very strange at first, as I had toget used to the way the women all gossiped. About men, babies, sex, andeach other, but I managed. After my third day at work, when I got home,Sheri brought over a. ‘You better believe it!’ the young man responded. Coach smiled. ‘I think you’re going to be glad you picked State,’ he said. ‘They’re about one good player away from a divisional, maybe national, championship, and I think you may be just the player they need.’ ‘Those girls…’ Ricky said, dreamily. ‘You know, kid, there’s a lot of your old man in you, ‘ Coach said. ‘What do you mean, Coach?’ Ricky asked. ‘You know your old man and I went through high school and college together, don’t you?’. She and her husband had two other small children and they were very good with them.Finally I caught him alone and said, “Excuse me. I hope I’m not crossing a line here, but I think your wife looks fantastic in that dress.”He laughed and said, “Please tell her that. She thinks that she is fat and now that she is pregnant again she thinks that men are not attracted to her.”I could not believe that a young woman that pretty could think that she wasn’t.I walked over to her and said, “I think you. I hardly knew her. She was old enough to be my mother and we had nothing in common. But she was pleasant enough and I needed to eat to keep my strength up.We went to an out of the way place she knew. She must have seen that I didn't want to talk but she made an offer just the same. "You look like you could use a friend. If you ever want to talk about it I'm a good listener."She didn't press me and I never did take her up on the offer although we went to lunch together from time to time. On one.