"Oh God," she prayed, "bless us this day in our efforts to learn how better to serve you, our families and our nation, we humbly ask in the name of yo...r son and Our Savior, Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen."In addition to the children's response there was a thunderous "Amen" coming from what seemed to be all of the spectators in the courtroom."Good heavens! What did you just do?" Roberta Kramer exclaimed."I said a prayer asking God to guide us," Bobbie answered dryly. "What did you think I did?". Can you come home by 8 tonight? I could really use your help.”“What’s she upset about?”“Sex ... She’s really interested in having sex. But she’s way too young! And she’s not the only one. It’s all over the news too -- unless it’s a hoax.”“Shit ... OK, I’ll try to be home on time.”Jim had been staying until midnight the last few days, but that night he got home at 8:20.“Oh, Daddy!” said Kara, running to hug him. “Would you have sex with me, please? I need it so much.”“You can’t have sex with. Perkins." There was a strained silence until Claire asked, "So what did you do? I mean, did you report him or, or what?" "Well, I'm here talking to you in the quaint old dorm of the world famous Nightengale School of Nursing. So what do you think? I did the 'or what' of course." Claire couldn't think of anything to say and just shook her head in sympathy as Jan continued. "However, I should point out in defense of my virtue that I did manage to negotiate my visits down to only once every other. Jewel had already declared a "Yes, Daddy, yes, yes!!!" when he asked if she thought she wanted to live with him, rather than her mom and step dad, so Jerry knew that he was going to be in for a very expensive day. He expected that they'd be picking up a lot of her things from her home, but if he thought she was staying, he wanted her to have mostly new stuff, unless there was some special attachment to some things for her at her house.Besides, with absolutely nothing but what she had on, it was.