She had to know that it hadn’t needed to be that way.Next to the mattress was a stack of photo albums. He picked up the photo album on the top of th... stack. It was the oldest one there. He opened it and looked at the pictures of him with Judy. He removed them from the album. There were no other pictures he was interested in taking. He took them out to his car.Carl came from across the street. He moved like an old man, older than he had been just a few months ago. It was as if recent events had. That’s all.’ ‘Let me get this straight. We’re talking about THE Penny, YOUR Penny?’ ‘Honey, that was a long time ago.’ There was a deafening silence. Willie checked the cell phone display to make sure they were still connected. Finally Annie said, ‘Okay, bring her home. I’ll get the spare room ready,’ and hung up. Willie was pissed. She had no right to get huffy after the stunt she pulled with Hannah. The motel office was empty when he returned. Violin music drifted faintly through the closed. That's all. It's not that we don't think you're all pretty."I thought about what he said. "Can I ask you something Ritchie?" Sure, anything," he said quickly."I want you to be promise to tell the truth ok, no matter what." I promise." Do you think I'm pretty? I mean, it's ok if you don't, I know it's hard to tell with family."Ritchie seemed surprised by the question. "Of course you're pretty. Don't you know that?"I shrugged. "I don't know. I mean everyone kind of thinks they're ugly don't. Wow I thought, this cant be true. Sure enough I was asked i I could help them move into their new house, I went over and low and behold there was beautiful Harmony.She almost dropped the box she was carrying when she saw me. We said HI and Matt came in and acknowledged my presence and said in a low voice Thanks for helping out" . About a week later Harmony called and asked if I could help her move some boxs as Matt was out on the road, her dad was out on a job, her mom ad taken her grandma to.