” “Great,” Russell stood up again to his full height, “Well see you tomorrow, Eight o'clock sharp.”“Ok,” I backed away a little dazed he...ding towards the door stopping myself before I left I said. “Yea, the only thing is that I've never worked in a kennel before.”“Haven't you?” Russell said grabbing a pallet of dog food from behind the reception desk. Pausing momentarily to think he sighed, “I wouldn't worry too much about that. All you have to do is feed the dogs and clean the kennels. It's. My family had money. I guess that's not making it on my own and making it on my own was what I wanted to do. I could absolutely have been a model. But I understand that's a lot of work and, from what I had learned when I was young, I could achieve the same or greater level of wealth by marrying well. I wouldn't marry just for money. But surely there would be wealthy, successful guys out there worthy of being loved. In the meantime, whatever temporary profession I chose, I would have lots of. That usually softened her up."Remember what I had said when you wanted to join the lacrosse team?"Mom continued not relenting. "You need to be careful, you don't want toexpose yourself." Mom!" I whined getting tired of the same old lecture. "I can controlmyself. You know that and besides I might not even make the squad," Iadmitted truthfully. My best friend Pete and I had practised a bit but Ihad my doubts about how good we really were. "All I'm asking is for achance."My Mom sighed finally. Damn, she’s a beautiful young woman.I am a very lucky man.We were seated in a small meeting room at a table that was capable of seating a dozen or more. We had plenty of room and two waitresses. Valeria ordered orange juice for the boys and asked for a pitcher of juice to be put on the table.When we all went out to the food bar, we looked like a line of troops in the mess hall as we lined up. Once we had a plate each, we all split out to look the food over. Kelly and Meghan grabbed Luís and.