She stepped back and looked at Kelly a second time. The attention being given her was immediately noticed by Kelly. Smiling the waitress said, “So! ...ou must be the reason Ed quit flirting with us.”Ed blushed and looked away while Kelly beamed at him. She asked, “When did he stop flirting with you?”The waitress was sure she wouldn’t be happy to be Ed’s girlfriend. He had been a pretty obnoxious customer and didn’t have a very good reputation in the area. She answered, “Oh, about ten days ago or. He took off his jacket and wrapped it around the boy's legs,sitting him down. "I don't know how you did that, boy," Tall Johnsaid. "I can't spend 10 seconds in that water and you were there fornearly two minutes." My sister spends hours in it," Mark shivered. "She is therivertalker. I was in it a long time when I was with her close by. Butalone it is really cold." That must be it," Tall John said. "It's in your blood." It nearly froze my blood," Mark said."You boys sit here for a while with the. As I said, she was 18-but her personality swung between 18; up to somewhere around 30; and down to, oh, five or so. She was incredibly bright and very mature-but, somewhere in the back of her mind, she still believed in Santa Claus and fairy tales and magic. I quickly found out what Tom meant about being impossible for this family to be 'brought down' by me at Christmas. Most of that came from Kathy.She came home from school on Friday to find me perched on the couch, reading a book. Her parents. It was a 12 but seemed a generous 12. I thought it would do.Four more charity shops later, we had managed to find a pencil skirt witha shortish side slit, in black and a cream, long sleeved blouse. Katethen decided that I should get a camisole top to go under the blouse. Wealso found a black leather, clutch bag. The next visit was hugelyembarrassing, it was to a shoe shop. Kate had me trying on all sorts ofshoes. In the end we found a pair of black strappy sling backs with a oneand a half inch.