I think she liked it so much that from time to time, she would take me toher bedroom on the pretense of putting me in a dress. But first she wouldtry ...o let me nurse at her breasts, even though she was just 15 at thetime. Then she would put the dress of the day on me, put me on the floorand finish getting dressed herself. It seemed to my little brain thiswould happen two or three times a week. Even if she didn't try to nurseme, I was fascinated watching her get dressed. She looked like a. " Oh, that. She's a mute." Really?" Yes, her father, after suffering through her prattle for the first decade of her life, decided that mankind would be better served without having to listen to her. He cut her vocal cords, and decided that he liked the effect so much, he silenced his entire household. Maureen!"Maureen wrenched her face up at me, in enormous distress."Stand up. I'm sure Master Hirsch would like to better inspect my craftsmanship. Now."He was re-assembling his clothing by the. ”“But I’m sure they both still expect dividend checks every quarter,” Phil remarked.“They both own 8 percent,” Beth said with a shrug. “They’re entitled to the dividends. Your uncle and aunt transferred half of their holdings to them.”“And you still held onto your share,” Phil said, winking at his mother. His mother controlled 51 percent of the stock in the company; her brother had 32 percent and the remaining 17 percent was in shares outside of the family. If Beth had turned any of her stock. Well a couple of years ago, I saw her and her boyfriend hard at it.Husband David and I were off to Hawaii on vacation, and we invited Paige, my daughter, and her then-boyfriend to join us. They had been dating for a few months and he had stayed overnight at our place a couple of times. John was seventeen at the time, and in many ways still a boy, but he worked out so was fairly muscular. Paige was sixteen, but more mature than John physically and mentally, and even at that tender age sported.