Helen looked at her son with a Mona Lisa smile, and gave a little laugh. "Just like riding a bicycle. Oh, I guess I'll need an ashtray." She got up an... went to the kitchen for a few moments before returning with a shallow saucer. "This'll have to do I guess." She took another drag off the long, white cigarette, not as luxurious as the first, but also less self-conscious, and flicked in the makeshift ashtray. She held the cigarette up in front of her. "I quit when I found out I was pregnant with. “Sorry.”“No. I got plenty of sisters. Catholic Ma, you know?”“You?” Joe asked.“A brood of four. All grown. Kicked the last out just this summer,” he said fondly. “Kid got the scratch to tour Europe. Got a scholarship to Massachusetts in Amherst. Bunch of schools that share supposedly.”“I’ve heard. Smart kid.”“Yeah. You?”“Grinnell in Iowa. These two beauties go to NYU.”“I’m between schools,” said Eddie.“School of Hard Knocks.”“Yeah.”“Been there. Got the certificate,” he pointed to his cab. I said, "You don't know it yet, butwe need each other." I also had a fair amount of ability to blocktelepaths, although some of that was training. I opened up myself sothat the Professor could tell I was speaking the truth, but held someback. He had a brief discussion with the others with him, and thensomeone else wandered up. I could smell his cigar from a mile away.The legendary Logan, also known as Wolverine. He was wrapped up in whoI really was, and I was trying to figure out if he. "It's just that soon we won't have days like today. You'll be away at college and I'll be here."I reached out and put my right hand on her shoulder, gripping and rubbing it softly."I won't be that far away. It's only a couple of hours and I'll be back and forwards." I know," she said. "I was happy you chose a college not far from here and not across the country. But still, you'll have college and all that goes with that."I put my other hand on her left shoulder and leaned into her."There'll be.