The cute little dress and the long legs perchedupon heels. The elegant simplicity of several sparkly bangles. The nowvoluptuous blonde hair that casca...ed over thin shoulders. The lilaccolored shadow, the pale pink lips and the deep dark eyelashes. Kayleewas a stunner. And I was Kaylee. I smiled big and walked with grace outthe door. I was still lost in all the new sensations and then the dooropened and I was met with Ms. Lila herself."Well look at you Kaylee. You look wonderful. What happened?". But the book served its purpose-to help pass the time while Kaija and John did whatever two sex-starved college students did alone in the dark in the wee hours of a Saturday morning. Ally glanced at the book's cover after polishing off another chapter. "Broncin' Bride"... where did people get such ridiculous titles? And why were readers so fascinated with brides and cowboys? With a grin, she made a mental note to pitch a book called "I'm Gonna Wrangle Me a Bride" one day. Heck, it'd sure. The dress and crinoline were both on the short side. They both stopped about3-inches above Ricky's knees. The pink dress had tons of lace and bows allover it, with a long sashes type belt that tied in a big bow behind theback. She then pulled Ricky's two pig tails tighter, and put a large pinkbow on each one. After that she had Ricky sit down so she could put on hispink frilly socks that had two rows of white lace going around the top ofeach sock. She then started to put some light face powder. There were always new names and faces in her classroom atschool and new personalities to meet and try to teach.Most of all there was the new constant in her life, Shamiqua, who grewfrom being her precious and precocious 'Little', to a tall, confident,and lovely young woman graduating second in her class from high school.She was a dear granddaughter who filled part of that void in Beth'sheart. Meek was heading off to the DC area in the fall with a fullacademic scholarship to Georgetown in hand..