That was a year ago. My daughter is now walking, and hasbeen starting to talk. I have long since forgiven herfather for his deceit; and just last Janu...ry, I marriedhim. I have come to terms with being a woman, a mother, andnow a wife. I just found out that I am pregnant with mysecond child. Tracey wants it to be a boy this time, but wewill have to find out when I give birth. I have decidedthat I did not want to know the sex until it was born. Thatway we can celebrate it's life and not anything. After some time he was getting closer and closer to my mom. His hand was touching my mom’s hand. There was no gap between them .my mom didn’t bother about that because it usually happens when we travel in the bus this gave courage to him. He didn’t want to lose this chance. So he slowly moved his fingers and touch my mom’s hips. My mom got shocked and he also say sorry for that. My mom said “it’s ok.”This gave further courage to him. After some time the lights were off in the bus and all of the. Symptoms started with sweats and a bad taste in your mouth and then you vomited and things went downhill fast after that.They thought it originated in Africa but could not get a good vector on where in Africa it came from. It was a bacteria, but our normal antibiotics didn't affect it. They tried everything even new antibiotics that were in the early experimental stage. Nothing worked.Later on they found out that it was not exactly a bacteria, but a cross between a bacteria and something else.. She was his half-sister, the legitimate child of his biological father.Somewhere his real father had grown some balls.He must have gotten a second girl pregnant but had married the second one. Laurie was in the ninth grade when he was a senior so he guessed it made sense. His real father had certainly gone to college; old enough to take on the responsibility.Cal had made a point of crossing paths with her a couple times. He didn’t want to face her down, tell her who he was; he only wanted to.