."His watch now marked half-past four. He took his jacket from the shrub on which he had hung it, slipped his arms into the sleeves, and put his hand ...n the right-hand outside pocket, where he had placed the pocket-book containing his papers:"Hullo!" he said, in great surprise. "I was sure I had..."He felt in the left outside pocket, then in the handkerchief-pocket, then, with feverish excitement, in both the inside pockets. The pocket-book was not there. And, to his extreme amazement, all the. Sometimes she has a hard time realizing when people are taking advantage of her." You know that she's sitting right across from you, right?" Gloria observed."That's OK," Suzy said. "Jake is just protecting me." Are you OK with what Jake said?" Gloria asked Suzy."I'm OK with anything that Jake says," Suzy responded."Oh no, not another Karen!" Tiffany moaned."Kari is a very smart girl," Suzy said serenely."OK, shoo now Jake," Michelle said. "We need to interrogate our newest member!"Dismissed, I. Her mother had brought the foursome, as we were called then, to this very McDonalds for her party.I had seen someone eat a cone just like that before! There she was, firm in my memory, pointed tongue, Lindie at nine or ten, licking her cone from bottom to top.I smiled and almost choked on my cone when I turned to see Lindie with her cone. There she was, broad smile on her face halfway through a pass and a glob of ice cream building on her tongue."Like mother ... Like daughter," I said to. I was married for seven years to my girlfriend from high school. I guess we were too immature to get married in the first place. She got pregnant at eighteen; I was nineteen. Our daughter Stephanie was born and, even though I loved her, I guess I kind of held her responsible for having to get married. How stupid is that? I blamed a little innocent girl for being born. I also blamed her mother for not using protection. I tried blaming everyone but myself.I found a job in a local factory and did.