I slipped on my bright pink thong and ruffled white shimmery miniskirt. My blouse was sheer with pockets for modesty, white French cut. I fastened onl... one button and the tails I tied in a knot just below my 32B bust. I chose some white heels to improve my 5’2” frame, plus heels do make my legs look damned good! I took a taxi to the restaurant where we had great food and the wine took the edge off the awkwardness for new friends. Their expressions told me they liked what they saw as I walked. She was my chief of staff, the daughter who did the organizing. “You can do this, Mom.”“Oh, yes, you can,” Bethany said. She kept up morale. She nodded her head, her face beaming with joy.Jen giggled. “You do got this, Mom.”“Mom?” I asked her.She blushed and cuddled up to Lola. “Well, in a few months you’ll be my mother-in-law.”I smiled at her. “I can’t wait. You’ll be so beautiful in white.”“We both will,” Jen said, squirming against Lola.The cheers grew louder and louder. I was meeting the. Angie drove.At the diner, Angie asked, “Who is Rose?”“What,” sniffled Pam.“Granddaddy said ‘Rose’ right before he passed away. I wonder who she was.”“Nonsense, Angie,” chided Pat. “I’m sure he meant he wanted roses at his funeral.”“I find that strange,” the detective retorted. “If it were flowers, he would have said ‘roses’. It was just ‘Rose’. Do y’all remember anyone by that name?”“No,” her mother spoke up.“We DO NOT know anyone by that name. Your grandmother, God rest her soul, was the love. "We'll have to be talking teams of twelve, if we're going to be running this race in Michigan, and maybe the John Beargrease. And we'll have to have more puppies coming along by then, too. But, that runs into the other problem. Mark thinks the puppies are cute, but how is he going to react to having another couple of litters around?" That turns out to not be a problem," Josh said. "In another month or so, the dogs won't be at Mark's." Josh, that's going to be a problem," she frowned. "It's hard.