The other thing that made her so attractive was that she was smart, not a brainiac, but smart. I got to know Kelly because we had some of the same cla...ses together, i.e. chemistry, Algebra, etc. So as we became an “item” we decided, because she lived close to school that we would go to her house after school and study and do our homework together. She had cleared this with her parents. Her mother was a stay at home mom and her dad was always working during the day. Since I had P.E. or baseball. As well as this mystery Fourth of July thing."That conversation got put on hold as Kelli started giving me directions. Michelle's Patisserie was only a few blocks from the inn, so the directions were minimal and the trip was brief.I'd been half expecting a very feminine, ladies-only décor, given the name, but it was much more gender neutral, done up in stainless steel, chrome with a white and blue enamel painted stripe around the room at the height of, and in the dimensions that suggested an. *******************************I hated to admit it to myself and certainly wouldn’t admit it to my Mother, but I was excited to get on the plane itself. It was the first time I could remember being on a big plane. The big crowds at the airport were a hoot, the strangeness of people, and the weird things that I seemed to be the only one on earth to notice. There was this older couple, not as old as Mom and Dad, which were in the line to get through security just in front of us. We were all. You’ve had to be both a big sister and a mother, to a certain extent, and from the time I’ve spent with Kate today, I’d say you’ve found the right balance.“I also know that in a job like yours there are good weeks and there are bad weeks. You told me yourself that some months there’s enough to live on, and some months there just isn’t. And you told me that because of that, you’ve got some debt hanging over you. I put Kate on the spot today, and asked her what she knew about that debt, and she.