All Star! How was your day Mandy?" She asked Mandy who was playing with her food."Fine" She grumbled not looking up. Mom gave me the "what's wrong wit... her" look. I shrugged my shoulders and smiled to myself."You know sometimes...it surprises me that you two are twins..." Tara said and laughed "and you dad is late once again. He is late a lot these days...." You know what surprises me? What surprises me is that you give so much freedom to him and not me! How come he gets to have a girlfriend. Finally, Alison got Pete to schedule his reconstructive surgery, actually he was concerned it would not work. Allison was the last thing he saw when he went under for the operation and the first thing he saw when he woke up in recovery. When he woke up, she said hi baby how are you. He smiled at her. She gave him some water thru a straw. She told him the Dr. said everything went great and is positive you’re going to be better than ever in a few weeks. Pete looks at her with a tear in his eye,. Most people can take one pill an hour, or up to twenty-four a day, before their liver explodes. I had popped half a dozen when I woke up. I was good at the moment.When the girls returned with the pup, I played with her for a bit, and taught the twins how to housebreak her. It was going to be their responsibility. If they saw her heading behind the furniture or looking for a place to squat, grab her and get her outside. If you catch her too late, rub her nose in it and swat her with a newspaper.. .," she quipped."Really, I mean it. Are you okay?"She thought about it for a couple seconds. She had a nasty shoulderinjury and held her arm at a strange angle because of it. Her thicklocks of brown hair were choked with dust and her face was covered in asheen of sweat. She was badly shaken, shot at, lightly scorched, andlooking like a woman stranded on a desert island surrounded by hungrysharks."Yeah," she said placidly. "I think I'll be okay."That was good enough for me."But you're.