Realisation suddenly struck home: I saw it now, the way they made her dress, the plain hairstyle, the way they shielded her from the real world. Her s...oes even had ankle straps for chrissakes! Bronwyn’s parents were deliberately keeping her ‘childlike’! But, to what purpose? How could she put up with it? No wonder I first thought she was younger than she really was! But, for all that, she was persistent… ‘I’m going to find a way to make you tell me, you know…’ I’ll tell you everything if you. She knew this avoided unnecessary backsplash."Panties? They were hanging on one of Mom's tomato plants!" Amanda laughed. "I was straddling her bed of basil, I couldn't spread my legs far enough with them around my ankles."Laughing made Amanda's hard jet strain from its course and the sound of splattering pee filled the alley.Clarissa chimed in her laughing, observing her friend's thin but firm stream of urine shooting out behind her to hit the wall at almost a meter's distance. Trying to aim. ”“Good, what did you break?”“The light sabers and power crystal?”“What light sabers?”Barbara and Ted looked at each other.“The ones from mommy’s bedroom.”Oh shit! They broke the last anniversary gift Ted bought Abby before he died.“You went into your mother’s bedroom and took the candle sticks?”“Yes, and your power crystal,” said John.“You took the glass rock with a gold sword in it and it’s broken also?”“Yes,” the three said. “We were using them as light sabers and put them next to the power. Jenny suggested that Ted go to the rental unit and settle in. He might want to drive up and down Gulf Boulevard to familiarize himself with the area and the stores that were there. He could also drive to downtown St Petersburg just to see what was there. She said the office opened at nine and when he comes in tomorrow she will show some of the listings they have on the types of properties they discussed.Ted left the office and did what Jenny had suggested. Finding the rental condo was easy..