When they did recognize me, I just sat there and smiledlike I agreed with everything they said. That got me in a little troublebecause Cynthia (she li...es to be called Cindy) thinks that Robert in the6th grade is kind of cute and I just nodded my head in agreement. "Oh,James agrees that Robert is cute!" Then they asked me which of the girlsthat I thought Robert would like the best.Boys should be taught at an early age to never answer questions likethis. But I was not so I told them that I. "Yes, Jenn, one thing has been on my mind since last night, why are youcalling me Pet and Petal?" That's an easy one, darling. While our little, well 'experiment' if youlike is going on, I want you to think of yourself as not the old Peter,scruffy, etc., but as what you can become. So while you are, I hope, intransition so to speak, I want you to have a new name. Now, the basis ofmy method is to make you aware of how a woman is more attentive todetail than a man, more concerned with appearance. . I don't know what came over me last night ... I just couldn't control myself ... It's been so long that I had anyone love me like that ... please don't hate me ... I couldn't live if you hated me."I was shocked. Here I was praying that my mother wouldn't hate me for what I did to her and she was thinking I might hate her for what she did to me.I took her in my arms and held her close.I kissed away her tears saying, "Mother, I could never hate you, I was so afraid that you would hate me this. I'd do it myself, if I hadn't already thought of it and done it."Tinka smiled at her and blew her a kiss. The baby seemed to be asleep at her breast, his little hand lying lightly on her soft curves, but his mouth was still working. She covered him with a light blanket and held him close."Andrea," Denise said. "Pardon me for being suspicious, but when someone mentions cheese, I smell a rat. What's this "liaison" with Eric you mentioned? What kind of liaison?"I told her what Monica had told me,.