“Something smells good.” “How does lasagna sound?” Rita said. “Sounds real good. We saved a couple kids today.” Rita wiped her hands on a ...hin dishtowel and turned directly towards him. The circles under his eyes were very dark after the long shift, but his eyes still danced. “Yeah?” He smiled, his teeth bright. He had missed a dark smear of soot near his ear. Mitch almost never talked about work. There were bad days – when an apartment building burned to the ground, or a civilian got burned. "What are you doing here. I though I would never see you again. We tried calling you, and for some reason we never got through. I must have had a number wrong or something."How's Al? I asked her.Her face kind of came apart and the tears started to flow again."Mike, that is why we tried to call, Dad died 6 weeks ago. I am so sorry we couldn't reach you. The time when you and your brother stopped. He had such a good time. He talked about it often. I must have heard about it on the phone a dozen. " Sheemphasizes this with a mock curtsey. "And I will undo the clasps before Igo."Why? My mouth moves but I'm mute. Why do you want to do this to me?"And that favor I owe you?" she adds. "Forget it." Why?" I finally vocalize meekly."Do it!" she says loudly.Jenny's head pops out of her room to check on the commotion. She's gotone sleeve of her golf shirt on. I can see her black slacks and I canonly bet that she's wearing her "daddyish" boots as well. She's going topress to play house, daddy and. James adoption agency to get our c***dren.We got the adoption agency and said we would like to adopted Jamie and Bobby and they said we can let adopt Jamie but not Bobby and we said why not Bobby he looks like a nice boy and look at the nun and she said “the are like brother and some people say there more than that as the said to me the scene Bobby and Jamie go in the boy bathroom and well start kissing each other and sometime Jamie dress up and sometime it Bobby dress up in girl clothing” and.