? It's hard to talk about.? Anyway, my dad and mom got divorced a long time ago.? I never see my mom anymore.? She joined this cult out West.? Any day...now I'll read about her drinking Cool-aid spiked with cyanide and dropping dead. It will probably be in Fiji, or Burma, or maybe Burkina-Faso.? She always was crazy.Between not growing up with any sisters and not having a good role model for a mother, I never was very good with the Ladies.? Part of it is my fault.? I've always been too. ." Did he say the word 'dyke'?" Yes, Mummy Driver..." Well, I've heard enough from you, my fine young woman..." Mrs Driversaid as she handed out the grocery bag she had taken in. "Go to thekitchen and fix us some lunch, I'll have a word with young Geoffrey inthe meantime..."Geoffrey saw Alice mincing towards the back of the house, glad to knowthat he was about to be freed from his humiliating ordeal. Mrs Driverwent to a chest of drawers."She's getting some scissors to cut me free" he thought.. I don’t think anyone knows the real truth of why the wild woods are not part of the City—part of the Forest. Someday, I suspect, Miss Weisman will dig deeply enough into her ancestor’s private papers that she will uncover what the mystery is. I could not find it in my Family papers. Before World War I, it seems that all the Nussbaum Family records were simply accounts and shipping records. That’s when we got into banking and beautification of the downtown. But at least now, we are moving to. I unsnapped Sam and said, “Let’s go check things boy.”He was off like a shot. I made a lap around all the fences and gates and was headed back to the house when I heard Aunt Mary holler, “Sam you son-of-a-bitch!”I went tearing to the house as hard as I could go. I came around the corner and there sat Aunt Mary with a strangle hold on poor old Sam. I said, “What happened?”“Well,” she said, “Here I was all stretched out sunning myself and this sneaky bastard snuck up and stuck his nose right in.