I was still reeling from everything that happened but meeting my nieceKaley was refreshing and life affirming. The little girl taught me lifecould sti...l be fun. She also taught me that love could be unconditionalbecause I loved that little girl, who looked just like a young version ofCali, so much it hurt.I also learned I could still be strong by watching my sister in law Trishstruggle for the sake of her daughter and husband. Without knowing shewas doing it, she helped me see life from a. I did a girl that same summer but at a different camp."Daniel was ... is ... a stoner. He thought he was going to come down here and set the music world on fire. He was wrong, as you know. We graduated from high school in June and moved down here the same week. Our parents gave us some money to start out with, so we rented that place and set up housekeeping together. But Lambert is fairly rural. I mean, you can get to Tacoma pretty easily but it is nothing like down here."I got a job waiting. And then I removed our clothing and washed both of us in the shower. Then we held each other in bed, and finally fell asleep, sometime after 2:00 A.M.After class the next day, Shelly cornered me in the classroom.“What made her so subservient to you that my suggestion to leave you made her collapse? I have to know. I need to know.”“This is not just something that can be explained. You don’t have the life experience for any words to make sense. Without that experience, the words have no context,. Some of the past hour started coming back to her and she tried to make sense of it all.?I..I.. stopped at Dana’s house?for some lemonade?.Must have given me drug?Took my clothes off???Don’t give me that. We’ve known Dana since he was a baby. He’d never do something like that. You must have tempted him somehow. You said you took off your clothes. That would do it. Slut!??No?He...took off???Just shut up. I don’t want to hear any more. You can tell it all to your uncle.?Chapter 4 Walking.