He does not know what the card says or even if she will like it. But it was what he had promised to deliver today to her. As he watches she slowly pul...s the card out and reads the front and gets a big smile on her face. Then she opens the card and he see a peace of folded paper fall out onto her lap. She continues to read the inside of the card. When that is done she sets that on the table and picks up the paper that fell into her lap. Unfolding it she starts to read and the tears start running. Marla quicklyscanned it and gave her a card. Tonya moved off to the front of therestaurant and the cashier's stand.During the brief wait, Marla reached across the table and took my hand,but we did not speak nor did she look at me. I knew, though, that shewas letting me know she was there for me in my willingness to behumiliated for her.Upon Tonya's return, Marla wrote down the tip and the total and signed.I had quietly moved my foot out near where one of the waitress' tennisshoe-shod feet and. "She could suck a golf ball through a garden hose," the Reverend Horne told his congregation at her Baptism. Her oral skills cured her protein deficiency as well as left her with a flawless complexion. She once had lockjaw and half the football team became suicidal. I was once told she had more yeast infections than Mrs. Popping Fresh. (Rimshot!)Yes, she was ....notorious! I hadn't thought of school in years. A very prestigious school, part of the Poison Ivy League. I earned my degree in. The door was opened. Jun made a gesture and in walked the damned prettiest twelve year old I might have ever seen. I remained sitting as the child just stood there, her eyes darting from me to Jun to the room to me.Welcome Anabel, please sit on the chair here at my side.She walked over and sat down. She was still in her school uniform; the standard white blouse with the big peter-pan collar, a red skirt at mid thigh length, white socks and black leather shoes. Even poor families seem to get the.