He asked me to call him and I told him I would but I didn’t. We lost touch for a few weeks and when we did reconnect his first words to me were You ...we me a phone call. I called him and he explained to me that he had been in a wreck and that is why i hadn’t heard from him. I apologized for not calling him before and we talked for a while. Again he told me what he was looking for and I was captivated by his voice. He asked me to come to him and I said that I would on my next day off.I had made. Between the two I can get away without them." "You're strange Tiff," she joked. "Just like you Amy, just like you." There was our usual sticking ourtongues out at each other session for a couple minutes. Eventually Iasked, "So what did you want to do?" "Here, let's go outside to the back," she replied as we walked to thegrassy area of her backyard. "Okay, so they don't expect you to knowa lot when you go to this camp - but it'll help you fit in better ifyou know at least a little bit of. "Uh... scrambled I guess." she answered quietly. As I walked into the kitchen I could feel the tension in the room."Hi Lindsay. I see you know your Mom's here." I said conversationally."Yah." Not exactly a ringing endorsement from the fifteen year-old."Don't worry, I'll be gone soon enough." Jo shot back.We ate our breakfast in near silence. Jo tried to get Lindsay to talk about school, but Lindsay wasn't in a communicative mood. At seven thirty, she got up from the kitchen table, said goodbye. " You're lucky. Downtown it's CVS and Walgreens I'm fighting, and winning now and then. Got a man, biggest man I ever saw, must weight 350 pounds, was going to be a pro football player till he ruined his knees, pulling guard's what he was. Lordy, I'd seen him coming around the end, I'd a'scampered."Man gave out more flu shots and lollypops than anybody in the state I'm sure. Great with kids."He left to get some more beer, and Meg came out and sat down beside him on the old redwood settle..