.. will be Faye." Then we just need to see to it, that we do everything in our power to see to it that that happens," she agreed. "There are a couple ...f other things I'm also going to try and do to see to a better chance of success for us both. While I'm doing that ... and making the final arrangements and preparations for both Steven and Faye for this evening, I want you to start doing something as well." And what's that?" I asked."Well, don't laugh ... but I think it's important that you do. He was only fifteen, and in the country illegally, having made use of his cousin's papers to obtain the job. He feared everyone and everything foreign to him."It's what you're gonna do," Anita growled, as her hormones ran amuck. Anita was a girl from a highly religious family. A family steeped in the Old Italian tradition. A young woman must retain her virginity at all costs, or the entire family is disgraced. This meant no dating until the family found a suitable young man. Then chaperones. It was actually so surreal. Like she was playing mind games with me and I was supposed to act stupid and let it all ride off my back. And that was my original intention, but the rock hard pipe that was turning from clay to copper to now a solid steel structure was telling me something else.Dinner finished without a hitch and I went to the kitchen to head up the clean up process as we did every Saturday, and I started washing the dishes as Angela and Margaret rinsed and stacked and the twins put. “Ah. There’s a note.” Jack came over and took the baby while I peeled the note off the door. “It says, ‘We’ve gone home for the holiday. You’ll be fine. In case of emergency, dial 9-1-1.’ Well, Jack, I’d say we’ve gone down in importance.”“I wondered why there was no one downstairs or meeting us at the door when we came in,” Elizabeth said. “What? Is there no danger to you over the holiday? Terrorists and protesters all take the week off?”“Apparently so. Yesterday there were half a million.