There had been the early difficulties between them, of course, with the problem over CBT and TENS. George always felt Deanna blamed him for the fact t...at Erica had been so furious with her. And Deanna always seemed offhand in the way she dealt with him and while there was a perverse pleasure to be had from being ignored by an attractive, ruthless woman, George felt that at least there ought to be some sign that she knew he was in the room.On this occasion it was worse than usual. She had been. “And after we finish with the garage, I was going to help Dwight put up the new roof panels on her back patio.”“Mmm hmm. Aunt Susan told me that Dwight and Karen would be in this weekend,” Mom said. “So that’s it?” she asked.“I guess.”We went back to simply enjoying the morning, but I could tell Mom was deep in thought.We sat there in silence for almost fifteen minutes.“You’d better go brush your teeth before you head over to Aunt Susan’s,” Mom finally said, turning to look at me. “And comb. ”“What about remote access? You know, hackers?”I laughed, “I wouldn’t say that within Sam’s earshot!”“Nothing is impossible.”“Very true, but the servers with source code or sensitive customer data are not connected to any outside networks, just our corporate WAN, and Sam has logging and monitoring in place. The security team did a full audit as one of their first tasks and identified a couple of areas where we could improve, but didn’t find any real problems.“The customer portal is available. I used to only have my dad and my big black mama, but I've found so many special friends down here. Most of all, I've found Chuck, you girls, Tina, Wanda, and Chuck's friends out at that crazy trailer park. I'm more in love than I've ever been, and feel as if I'm just barely beginning. Strange, isn't it?"Frieda had swum up to us and offered, "We are all just beginning. All of us, as a group, are growing, maturing, and becoming a unit, a family. I think you're feeling the security of being cared.