Finally, Maria asked, “What is it?”Nervous at the chances of having two crying women, Ed said, “John’s girlfriend died last night.”As one, t...e two women made the sign of the cross. Maria cried out, “Oh, the poor girl. She was so pretty and young.”Rosa said, “Poor John, he must be crushed.”“I know that you two like John a lot and I thought I should let you know,” said Ed. It was common knowledge that Maria worshiped the ground that John walked on.Tears formed in Maria’s eyes as she looked at her. In comparison to the warlike tribes of the Creeks to the north in current day Georgia and the Calusa down in south Florida, the area was reputedly a quiet, peaceful existence and the settlement prospered like an oasis in sea of violence. It was the evolvement of the Apalachee from normal American Indian attitudes of confrontational violence into a more docile and agricultural populace that probably sealed their doom to almost total extinction by the end of the 400 year war. A number of them. I wanted to slap him though when he asked, “Should I get Jeremy to deliver our son?”“Hell no, you goof! Get my go-bag and get my ass to the hospital! You don’t see no head yet do ya?”I WAS sending out a mental ‘SOS’ to my sisters, letting them know their babysitter was about to fly the coop.CJ then lookeds up at us and started crying big alligator tears, “Mio too need Leela, Mama! Mama, Daddy help Mio too!”Suddenly, my heart leapt into my throat. If the image CJ sent was true, Tyler was choking. I need the sex, but I've never found anyone with whom I'd like to share my life. Maybe, now that you have grown up and will be moving out, I might be interested if I met someone special, but I'm really not looking for someone.”“If I do move out, and my new friends want me to move in with them, wont you be lonely?”“Well, I hope that you'll come and visit me fairly often ...”“Of course. You really are the best mum.”“ … and with my part-time boyfriends, and with the people that I'm friendly with.