She often wondered, seeing this connection, if Patrick was somehow able to put some of himself into their son. He would sit in his lap and watch TV, o... his favorite, baseball, for hours on end if she let him.She owed them a lot. When she told her parents she was pregnant there was a huge fight, something she was expecting. And though the fighting ended, the sniping and sideways looks didn't, so after a couple of months of these, attacks, she had enough and left. She ended up at Patricia's, only. Tuck was easy to spot, because of his hat. Judybondi was aboard as well. She was also easy to see, as she was the tallest person on the raft."Looks like we get to run, sister!" Tanda told her companion. She waved around them. "We might meet the enemy." I have my knife," Tazi said proudly. "And the rifle the Hostigi said I could keep." And I have mine. I also have a pistol my uncle gave me." She showed Tazi the weapon, carried in her herb bag. "The next time, you too will have one!" Let us run,. If this were New York City I could rent the thing out for a thousand a month.It occurred to me one day that if I lost the key, which I was currently searching for in a drawer cluttered with batteries, sewing kits and matchbooks, I would be up the proverbial creek without a paddle. It was the only copy. I could call a locksmith, which would set me back a hundred or so dollars. But wouldn’t it be smarter to have a backup key made?I finally found it and decided yes, I needed to have that key made. Then tells me that she was hit on by a Pakistani guy. I shrug it off saying it's creepy to do in a gym. Bearing in mind the town she moved to has a large Asian community and large Mosque. A community which she happened to live right alongside.Over the next few weeks each time her going to the gym is brought up in conversation she tells me that yet another guy has hit on her at the gym. She makes it sound like an annoyance to her but it's increasingly making me more frustrated. I start saying.