Moments later Alex walked down the stairs and joined the family at thesmall kitchen table dressed in an apricot turtleneck and a black and whitechecke...ed miniskirt. The girls marveled at Alex's outfit. "Wow, don't youlook groovy!" Marcia exclaimed."Yeah," Jan added "I love your sandals!" So," said Carol starting out the morning conversation. "You girls goingto the Ice Cream Parlor today?" as if she wasn't there for last night'sdinner discussion."She included me as one of the girls" Alex. I took a couple of kicks to my right arm.When I let a right hook go, and as soon as the hitch started, he hit me with a good jab. That was followed by a right hook that I didn’t see coming. It didn’t land flush, but it was still a pretty significant blow. I ended up on one knee.I was slightly dazed, and the referee started an 8 count. I got up on 6 with the referee watching me.“You good?”“Yeah.”“Put your guard up and walk towards me.”I took a couple of steps.“Good. Defend yourself,. Feeling her skin suddenly become a mass of goose-bumps, she reached out and flicked the switch that opened the bath’s three drains before rising up out the depths. The heat of the bath had warmed the air to a pleasant temperature, but she could feel cold drops of later running down her back in rivulets as she walked across the damp onyx floor and took her towel off the heated rail. Rubbing herself dry with the fluffy fabric, she then placed it back on the rail to dry before donning her white. Well, the trucking company ended up not avoiding publicity and, instead, ended up front and center in bad publicity as their dirty laundry was aired. Their stock on the market took a plunge that would make 1920 stock market crash look like a minor bump in the road. There was a plethora of charges and lawsuits filed in various courts.Without going into a case by case narrative the bottom line was that both Elizabeth and Alex ended up with over a million dollars each. They got their parents.