Damn she had a hold on me, and I was simply miserable. The proverbial shit hit the fan last night. We were chatting at the table having just finished...dinner, when Mom asked me how my ‘love’ life was going. I laughed and told her not very well given the fact that there weren’t too many ladies wanting to hook up with an unemployed twenty something guy. “Well I don’t understand what that has to do with anything,” Mom replied, “After all, the economy will turn around soon enough and then you will. You wouldn't have fought me like that if he were here. I don't want you with the walls up, and I don't want him without that light. So I'm leaving before I damage it, and none of us has anything."Shawna, please... Let me go."Shawna just sat, stunned, lost in the implications. Marcus was different around her, and she was different around Marcus. It was true, but that was love. This was... It made sense, she knew. Marcus would understand in an instant, and would agree with her entirely. She stood. The father of my twins was Bennie, the 17 year old brother of Luis and cousin to Big Poppy, my Latino gang lovers. I called him on the phone and asked to meet him somewhere and we decided to meet at Luis’s apartment. I put both of the babies in their car seats and drove over to Luis’s place the next day. I carried them to the door and I was met by both Luis, Big Poppy, Bennie and a few other gang members. They all congratulated me and hugged and kissed me as they took the c***dren into the. To hide the light of her beauty from the world was as sinful as to hide any other gift that God bestowed upon a man or woman, whether intelligence, wisdom, artistic ability, strength, or love. These were the revelations that the Lord God had shown her in the past several weeks. Convinced of the truth of her understanding, she had put off the hats and scarves, the extra-large shirts, and the baggy trousers. She went bare-headed now, revealing the great, radiant curls of her blonde hair and.