She was a social worker and a career bureaucrat. She didn't like that the CYS legal staff had put an end to some of the ways CYS had handled its cases...in the past. For instance, unlike when I arrived at CYS, the office required a signed writ from a sitting judge to remove a child from a home. Previously, they would simply show up, remove the child and the parents would have to spend thousands of dollars fighting to get the child back. More often than not, they did get their parental rights. .. don't you?" Yeah," he replied reluctantly after a long pause. "I know I'm probably not all that rational about it. I just miss my dad, you know? Don't get me wrong, I love Raul. But baseball is such a big part of my memories of Dad. That was our main thing together."Collette moved closer to him and draped an arm over his shoulders."Hey... I can't imagine what it would be like to lose my mom or my dad, the way you and Sammy did," she said."Yeah. I've talked about it with Sammy, and we both. Unke shr me mama, mami, nana, nani or unka ek beta rhta tha to inte logon ke baare me sochte hi meri himmat toot jati thi, to phir agle din mai unke ghr gya or uss time bs nani thi ghr pr mai kuch bhana maar ke andr chla gya or vo bhar hi baithi thi phli baar mai gya to jb maine cupboard khola mujhe unki bra and panty nhi mili mujhe bhot nirasha hui.Pr jb maine ache se dekha to mujhe unki bra and panty mil gyi or vha pr bra karib 20 thi panty sirf 2 mai hiraan tha, lekin maine kuch uthaya nhi. What about baths?Oh crap. Yes, Tess had a bath almost every night before bed. Yes, I had put her naked into the tub. Yes, I'd washed her all over. When I heard that Crystal had asked about that I started to wonder just how badly the other inmates would work me over before finishing me off. Tess had just answered simply and directly, telling I just washed her and used grownup shampoo, and even told how I put the heart necklace on each time and finished each bath with a spritz of Crys's perfume..