. I could still hear the vibrator in the background. "Okay, at first I was just playing along, but I did get a little worried after a bit. You got me ...air and square. But a vibrator?" Come on, like there's a flesh-and-blood man who could actually take your place? Properly, I mean?"My voice became soothing. "Well, I'd say there's plenty of decent guys out there who could. It'll just take some time to find them." Yeah, maybe ... after I'm through grieving over the death of our marriage for a. “Hm-hm-hm,” a pale man cleared his throat, and slid a small box of metal doodads across the counter for my inspection, “Pardon, Mademoiselle. Ça coûte combien?”Shattering my daydream, his heavy flannel and fleece trapper cruelly reaffirmed that I was not back home in North Carolina; that I was in Montreal, that it was November, and that it was a blasphemous seven degrees below zero outside. Centigrade, that is—I never did quite grasp the conversion to what I still considered the real. Edy delivered Molley, a healthy baby girl two days after Christmas. Based on her size, I’d say that Isum is the father. She named her after Sally, Mahala, Isum, and Jimmey’s mother.Nawaji looks like she has another month to go, and she has helped make papoose boards for all three babies, as well as for hers. Mahala, Cisley, and Lucey are ecstatic, having missed their last period. They were starting to worry that they wouldn’t be able to get pregnant until I reminded them of how much work we did. ’ He slowly rose to a swaying sit. ‘Okay, dear.’ ‘Don’t call me that.’ ‘Whatever you say…’ He struggled mentally. ‘Sweetheart.’ The smile crossed his face slowly as he watched her reaction. At that moment, he was too defenseless to fight. ‘Aggravating boy.’ She shook her head and watched him lean heavily on the arm of the couch. He looked through her with those deep odd blue eyes. They seemed a muddy green, now. ‘Were they always green? No, they’re blue a really dark blue.’ Jo watched a.