"He wasn't my uncle, not really. When I was a kid he was just a friend of the family, you know. And then, when my Dad left, he was... He stayed around... With my Mum." With you?" Eventually," she nodded, and they both stopped for a few moments to watch tears slowly drip from Yvonne's nose on to the table."See, I know it's hard, but... Marcus saw something in me, a little spark of something, and he kept blowing on it and fanning it until it came back to life. That spark's still there in you. You. Chloe, though abusive towards me, had wanted to find a male role model in her life, and ended up going off the rails when she kept on rejecting them. She ended up with 4 kids by 4 different fathers. It was the same as Elysa. They were, in my general labeling, a couple of bar whores. They’d go out, pick up guys, have sex with them unprotected unless the guy thought ahead, and then blame the guy for not using protection when they got pregnant. They refused birth control in their later years, and. Bobby and Howard had all eight guys quickly stacked in the Suburban with the doors closed. He took the keys out of the ignition then used the remote to lock it up. He said, "I'll call the bureau and have their tow truck haul this to their station so they can do the bodies. Let's gather the junk from the pockets and get them in individual plastic bags."Thank goodness Sarah and I had kept the junk separate. All had a wallet and all had a cell phone. Some had keys, they had some change, but a. But, yeah, I've come to accept it."Scooter leaned back a little and took a drag on her cigar. "Yeah, I can think of lots, too," she said finally. "But I count myself lucky for what she did get a chance to teach me." There is that," Crystal said quietly. "I guess I'm just going to have to carry on." I'm sure you will, Crystal Louise," Scooter smiled. "And I plan on being right there with you." Thanks, Scooter," she sighed. "I don't know if you heard me, but back on the bus yesterday I told Randy.