“Well, Gram, you’ve made another conquest. Are you going to adopt all the girls that come into this house?”The words floated through my mind. �...Yes, especially yours. Get busy.”“We’re trying Mom.”Jim and Christy came home from their honeymoon tanned and relaxed, and seemed in no hurry to move out of the apartment. The had confiscated the tack room, using it as an office. Our documentary on the Merchant and Monroe families, concluding with the opening of the vault, was very well received. It got. I heard the school bus pull up outside my residence a 2:30. I saw Lacy exit the bus in a hurry as the k**s hurled insults at her for being the ugliest girl in school. As she ran to my front door I could see she was crying hysterically. She rang the door bell and when I answered her head was bowed in humiliation... tears were literally falling on the books she held in hand. I quickly escorted her into the foyer and grabbed her books and set them on the table. I then told her to come to me and I. We’re doing a blood chemistry study at the hospital. It’s part of some work Doctor Norris is doing with regard to missed diagnoses.”“So looking after the fact for missed clues?”“Exactly.”We finished our lab reports about 10:00pm, and because it was earlier than usual, the gang came to hang out in my room and listen to music. There was one addition — Glenda. She had started hanging out with us after she and Clarissa had made love.“About a month to go,” Robby said. “Then Summer!”“What are you. She wasn’t a virgin after a short episode where an older cousin used her body for his fun and she never heard from him again. That had been twenty years ago.She was so damn lonely she could hardly stand it but never felt confident to reach out and make connections with a man since her looks wouldn’t attract him at all, or so she thought.The problem had been working in her mind a lot and when she saw the poster saying that exchange student housing was needed she had an idea. These students would.