Home Economics, you don't get any boys in there, but then you don't get many girls in Metal Shop, so I think it balances out. My brother said they're ...orking on engines, and I know I'd never like doing that. I can smell the grease and cleaner on his hands even after we get home." Ick. Yeah, I'd really hate that. I've got Home Ec this afternoon. What are we doing?" Last year we learned to run a sewing machine," Angelica said. "I think this term we're learning our way around a kitchen. We'll. His lips already to the spot on my neck that always, always seemed to make me melt. ‘Not tonight Mac, not tonight.’ I pushed him away. A few years back I had lost my virginity to Mac. I couldn’t stand him but he was always around. And even I couldn’t deny how gorgeous he was. I just figured that if I was always going to be single, I might as well lose it to a hottie that wasn’t going to take advantage of me. No one ever really caught on that anything had happened between us. So we let it. I bought things at the grocery and learned to cook some things. My cooking never compared to Diane’s. I got to know most of the people in town, all the farmers for miles around and some from outside the county. For the first six months a common topic in the F&G was the question of ‘Who was I before I got to town?’ I lied. What I had done for the eighteen years attached to the U.S. Air Force was not something I wanted known, talked about or spread about. The military had a name, even a job title. I have been thanking God for you ever since!”Marilyn started crying again, and I gave her another hug, and then she kissed me and ran off the stage. I waited a moment for the audience to calm down, and then began.“Well, now that I have the important stuff out of the way, why don’t we get down to why we’re all actually here. You know, electing John McCain the next President of the United States of America!”There was a lot of cheering at that, and I went into my speech. My speech was mostly.