I looked at the paddle and gave a little smirk. I swung the paddle back and hit his ass hard. "Shit!!! Amanda!!!" Ryan yelled. "There is going to be m...re. I think 10 is a good number," I said swinging the paddle again. It made a loud smack on his ass.I took the paddle and swung it again even harder. "Damn!" Ryan yelled again putting his hand over his ass. "Ryan move your hand now!" I said. He moved his hand just as I swung the paddle and it connected with his ass again. It was slightly turning. Still, it squicked me.”We sat quietly for a minute as she took another sip of wine. She continued, “And that’s how I felt when I learned about us. Teachers don’t do that. I certainly don’t. But I did, actually, and it was nothing wrong. If you think about it, just as two adults. No real connection before.”I nodded, “I decided that too.”“And then your mother called. They decided it as well, though she still grilled me for a few minutes. I guess she decided I’m good enough for you. No objections,. "Don't smoke," Tiny said. "Bad for your health. Sure don't do that stuff around the babies. Same reason I started to drop the weight a couple of years back. I was looking at being dead before I got to see my kids grow up. Now it's a healthy diet and exercise."There went any possible alibi witness. No jury would believe the testimony of his live-in girlfriend."What kind of car do you drive?" I asked."Land Rover," Tiny answered. "Red with gray interior. Sometimes I drive my lady's car if she has. I never will. No one except afew that are like me that I have given love to and receive love backwill ever call me mom. I have given some of them strength. I have givensome of them the will to endure. I have given some of them the strengthto, as Shakespeare?s Hamlet put it, to be instead of not to be.Every night I ask G_d to do that miracle and allow them to really be mydaughters like they deserve. That miracle would be for them as well asfor me. At least G_d did answer my prayers in a way that.