“Oh, my god. Look at my mom. That didn’t take long.” About then, what could have been his twin looked at Kayla, then me and held out his hand fo... her to join him on the dance floor. I nodded and off she went.Men outnumbered women, but not by much and both Kayla and Amanda went through a half dozen dance partners each while I watched.“Here by yourself, cowboy?” I felt a hand on my shoulder. I followed the arm up to a pretty young woman who could have been Loretta Lynn’s younger sister, and. Arm in arm they strolled along the streetadmiring the storefronts and pointing out some of the decorations. Theirroute took them past one of the village sleighs. The grizzled driver wasfastening a feed bag on one of the two horses. He glanced over at themand realized he knew one of them from somewhere. The ladies didn'tnotice his glance nor that he quickly fastened the second bag and thencrossed the street and casually followed them. I know that woman fromsomewhere he thought again.Later. See, the problem is that your scores weren’t good enough. That means you were deemed to be a substandard family in the community. The person that comes in has to have a good enough score to make your household average higher. That means they would be legally the head of the household and you’d have to answer to them, like you do to Sarah.” Dave carefully said.“Sarah answers to me, dammit.” Bill took exception to his father in law splitting hairs like that.“Whatever,” Dave waved his hand. . ? Well! She's so cool! So utterly, actually fabulous! Sam and I hope she stays with you forever. You're a really awesome pair, you know!"They both gave me big hugs, which I returned with interest. Then I had one last caution, "This isn't all arranged yet, you know. Rachael and I haven't really talked about what we want and how we want to do it ... Knowing you support us is a big help, though. Thanks, guys!"With promises to talk to Ben and Leah during the day, they were off to swim, explore,.